“There’s not a lot of us. But what I always try to think about, and what my passion is, is spreading more poppies in a field of daffodils, so to have more Black and brown dancers.” Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29 www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/s...

Trailblazing ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince dies at 29

Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé

So sad to lose her so young

I love the vision. The corps du ballet always demanded a stage full of barely distinguishable dancers sharing a rare collection of body attributes -excluding almost all hopefuls regardless of talent. It's almost set up to exclude diversity, and I dont know how you address that problem.x

29 years old, this is so sad