Since the inception of ballet, dancers of color have had to wear traditional pink ballet shoes or paint them brown to match their skin tone, but now that's changing. - TODAYShow
Before professional ballerina Ingrid Silva takes the stage, there's been one chore she's often had to perform that she hopes will soon be a thing of the past.
Ingrid Silva, like many dancers of color, has had to "pancake" or paint and powder her ballet slippers to match her skin color. "Dancers of color need to feel welcome and supported, so they need to see clothing and shoes that look like they were designed with them in mind,'' founder Eliza Minden told Radford.
Misty Copeland broke racial barriers as the first African American principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre."There's so many underlying, subliminal messages that have been sent to people of color from the time ballet was created,'' Copeland told Radford.
American manufacturer Gaynor Minden has been one of the first companies in recent years to produce shoes in shades of brown.Founding company member and current artistic director Virginia Johnson is hoping that having shoes to match darker skin tones becomes another small way to attract people of color to ballet.
"When you don't have the means to be a part of it, or your community doesn't have access to it, there's not gonna be dancers that come in to be able to train,'' she said.Copeland has also worked to raise awareness of ballet to a larger audience through a signature"Having the platforms that I have ... these are all spaces that can reach the masses,'' she said.
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