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Misty Copeland on 60 Minutes
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Misty Copeland
The following script is from "Misty Copeland" which aired on May 10,
2015. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Patricia Shevlin, producer.
Unless she's on her toes, Misty Copeland is just a little over five feet
tall, but she's a towering figure in the world of ballet -- a top
dancer in one of the top companies; American Ballet Theater. She's been
called a prodigy, a breath of fresh air. She wants to blow the cobwebs
out of the stuffy world of classical ballet and open the doors to
everyone. Misty Copeland is the embodiment of the American dream. She
grew up poor, didn't hear classical music until she was a teenager,
she's an African American in a profession where there are few. At 32,
she has overcome more obstacles than most of us ever face. When she
began, one dance company told her she would never make it in ballet.
Boy, were they wrong.
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