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Misty Copeland's Dancing Family Tree
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The Dancing Tree of Misty Copeland
Louis Dupré
Dupré was a French ballet dancer and teacher who put on productions in London and the Polish court. He spent his later career at the Opera de Paris.
Jean-Georges Noverre
Noverre was a French ballet dancer who is known as the father of narrative ballets. His birthday is International Dance Day.
Marie Rambert
Jean Dauberval
Rambert was a influential ballet dancer and teacher in the early part of the 20th century. She studied at the Paris Opera and Ballets Russes.
Dauberval was a French ballet dancer who studied at the Paris Opera, as well as was the maître de ballet to the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, and was ballet master at Académie Royale de Musique. He is known for creating several popular ballet repertoire works.
Antony Tudor
Tudor is a famous English ballet dancer and choreographer. He danced with the London Ballet and with the future American Ballet Theatre.
Carlos Blasis
Blasis was a ballet dancer and teacher known for his intense teaching style. He was director of the La Scala Theatre Ballet School
Enrico Cecchetti
Cecchetti was a Italian dancer who originated his own teaching style, known as the Cecchetti Method. He studied at the Imperial Ballet, and taught dancers such as Anna Pavlova.
Giovanni Lepri
Lepri was a dancer in the mid 1800's and was a principal dancer at Milan's La Scala and prominent ballet teacher in Florence.
Maggie Black
Kevin McKenzie
Black taught ballet in New York City in the 1970's to several now successful dancers. She studied ballet at the Cleveland Civic Ballet as well as the London Ballet Theatre and National Ballet of Cuba. Black is known for promoting an alignment theory that promotes no tensions and free movement.
McKenzie is the current Artistic Director at the American Ballet Theatre. Born in Vermont, he was trained at the Washington School of Ballet and was also a part of the Joffrey Ballet before joining ABT.
Misty Copeland
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Misty did not begin ballet lessons till the age of 13. She started at the Boys and Girls club and was quickly described as a prodigy. Misty is often billed as the first African American soloist of the American Ballet Theatre. She joined ABT in 2001 and was promoted to soloist in 2007.