At the beginning of the year, Alishia Abodunde joined her friend, a former ballet dancer from New York, on a trip to the ballet at the Royal Opera House in London.
It was her first time going to the ballet, and she fell in love with it. But as she looked around, she noticed something.
“I realized … there aren’t that many Black or Brown dancers,” Abodunde said. “And also … I was like one of two people of color in the audience.”
She hadn’t thought about it before — how when you imagine a ballet dancer, you usually think of a White woman — but she couldn’t stop thinking about it after.
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