Classical ballet has a diversity problem and its stars know how to fix it


As an African-American soloist with the United Kingdom’s Royal Ballet, Eric Underwood says he is often asked why the ballet world isn’t very diverse.

It’s complicated, Underwood says. Race, income, social hierarchies and other factors often conspire to create a situation that excludes people of color from serious pursuit of dance.
Maybe it's because niggers are more interested in (c)rap, muh dik and bix nood than the arts. Maybe.

Underwood and Copeland remain anomalies as people of color in ballet. Although their headline status would seem to indicate otherwise, directors and artists say there remains a reluctance to drag the art from the 19th century — when white bodies and pale clothes were its image — into the present day.


Q: Why do niggers dance so well?

A: if you spent the first nine months of your existence dodging a coathanger, you'd dance pretty well too.

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