Sentence examples for as a black dancer from inspiring English sources

Born in Philadelphia, she studied ballet from an early age, but as a black dancer faced all the usual obstacles.

Like Beatty, Ms. Myers turned away from the classical ballet she had trained in when it became obvious there would be no jobs for her as a black dancer.

If I go to Swan Lake, there is never a black dancer as the swan.

(A memorable image has a black dancer in a white tutu sieving flour over herself as Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" plays).

She satirises Cyrus's racially-charged "twerking" by slapping a black dancer's bottom.

"I would love to see a black dancer play a Sugar Plum Fairy," says Ballet Black's Robinson.

"In most companies, when a talented black dancer is chosen as a member, they don't know how to cast them properly.

Now Mr. Mitchell has his eye on choreographers at a time when creating dances in the classical ballet idiom has become almost as unusual as the sight of a black ballet dancer once was.

When Benjamin Millepied resigned as director of the Paris Opera Ballet in 2016, he spoke of hearing a colleague say black dancers were a "distraction".

(One of the earliest recorded such challenges took place in 1844 between black dancer William Henry Lane, known as Master Juba, and Irish dancer John Diamond).

"I asked myself, as a black man, how it felt to be so discarded and devalued," says Cave, 52, a former dancer who lives in Chicago.