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The biopic of the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre is to be helmed by a woman of color. Nzingha Stewart will direct the New Line feature Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, an adaptation of famed ballerina Misty Copeland’s compelling best-selling memoir of the same name.
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Like recent Disney live-action adventures like 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful and this year’s A Wrinkle in Time, The Nutcracker is visually gorgeous and entertaining enough, with some interesting approaches to adapting familiar material, but the results don’t quite cook up as well as you’d like, especially considering the first-rate ingredients.
Read moreA Ballerina’s Tale pays tribute to the talent and tenacity of Misty Copeland, the African American ballerina who defied racial
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Opening October 14, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is A Ballerina’s Tale, George Nelson’s stirring documentary about African-American ballerina Misty Copeland’s life and career arc from her discovery of ballet at the age of 13, through her studies and acceptance into a ballet company where she defied prejudice against dancers of color to grand jete herself from the corps de ballet into the spotlight. Read on…
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