“Crimson and Clover” video, 214–15, 219, 223
European tour of, 216–18
in performance, 216, 217, 218, 221, 226, 236, 260
photo shoot with, 218–19
Purple Rain, 214, 220
rehearsals with, 220–21
Welcome to America tour, 219, 220, 222
Princess Grace Foundation, 201–2, 229–30
prodigy, use of term, 71–72
Project Plié, 260
Push Comes to Shove, 149, 151, 224
Ratmansky, Alexei, 4–5, 239–40, 243
Ratto, Kaylen, 128, 138, 213
Ray (mother’s friend), 55, 58–60, 68
Raymonda, 109
Reina (friend), 26, 31
Richardson, David, 225
Robert (stepfather), 18
background of, 14–15
and Cameron, 61, 83, 110
home of, 16, 21, 46, 126
leaving, 24, 47, 53–55, 57, 61, 68, 86
life with, 46–48, 49–52, 53, 59, 75, 211
and Misty’s childhood, 22, 24
and Misty’s teen years, 47–48, 49, 203
racism of, 51–52, 53, 174, 208
temper of, 48, 50, 54, 126
Robinson, Smokey, 232
Romeo and Juliet, 74, 262
Rowell, Victoria, 179–81, 182, 188
Royal Ballet (London), 98, 178, 229
Royal Danish Ballet, 98, 229
Ryder, Winona, 74
Salstein, Craig, 152, 201–2
San Francisco, summers in, 100, 103, 109, 114, 204
San Francisco Ballet, 97–98, 139, 140, 163
offer to Misty from, 104, 108, 111–12, 113, 118
summer program, 99, 102–6, 107–9, 113, 119, 129, 135
San Pedro, California, 14–16, 133–34, 146, 174
Boys and Girls Club, 30, 32–33, 42, 56, 185
San Pedro Ballet School, 36–38
San Pedro Dance Center, 41–43, 66, 70, 92, 117, 129
San Pedro High School, 85, 87, 119, 125–26, 127
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 242, 244
Serrano, Lupe, 92
Sleeping Beauty, 2–3, 105
Grand Pas de Deux, 230–31
pas de deux, 152
Puss in Boots, 229
Special Olympics, 85
Spotlight Awards, 90–91, 95, 96, 97, 135, 136, 139, 183, 202
Squire, Gilda, 227
Stravinsky, Igor, 1, 237
Studio Museum, Harlem, 227
Stuttgart Ballet, 98
Sunset Inn, 60–61, 64, 65, 68, 83, 115, 116, 123, 126, 127
Swan Lake, 165, 192, 197, 243, 262
African American/black dancers in, 173–76
danse des petits cygnes, 172–74
pas de trois, 230
TV broadcast of, 173–74
as “white ballet,” 174
Sylvia, 175, 185
Tarantella, 201–2
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich, 105, 172
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, 221
Tharp, Twyla, 149–50, 224
Tómasson, Helgi, 111–12
Turning Point, The (film), 148
UCLA, Royce Hall, 88
Underwood, Eric, 178–79, 182
Vernon (friend), 250
Villella, Edward, 201
Washington, Denzel, 232
Washington, Kerry, 232
Wigs, 36
Wilkinson, Raven, 175, 176, 188, 226–28, 242, 248
Wright, Rebecca, 97, 135
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ISBN 978-1-4767-3798-0
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Insert photos: p. 6, Getty Images; p. 7, top (inset): Marcia E. Wilson; with Herman Cornejo: Gene Schiavone; p. 8: Rosalie O’Connor.
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Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Photographs
Acknowledgements
About Misty Copeland
Index
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Page 24