How native speakers pronounce “ballet”

She's wonderful. I used to be on the board of The Royal Ballet, as you can see. (Laughter)

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people who had to move to think." They did ballet, they did tap, jazz; they did modern; they did contemporary. She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School.

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They did ballet, they did tap, jazz; they did modern; they did contemporary. She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School. She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet.

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She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School. She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School,

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She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School, founded the Gillian Lynne Dance Company,

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He was the mayor of Sacramento. She won a Pulitzer Prize. He's a Russian ballet dancer." And I kind of grew up assuming

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travel baseball or, you know, piano, recital, ballet, or would you rather um be online with them playing games, you

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The first night I danced "The Firebird" at American Ballet Theater, I wasn't yet a principal dancer.

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It was the most diverse audience the Met had ever seen for a ballet performance. (Applause)

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late by every standard, I touched a ballet bar for the first time. It wasn't in a studio.

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My confidence began to flicker awake. Ballet made me feel alive and like I had purpose.

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It gave me the resilience to survive and, in time, truly thrive. But ballet was not always the safe place I hoped it would be. I was the only Black woman in a company of more than 80 dancers.

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I was the only Black woman in a company of more than 80 dancers. And for all the stability and belonging I had discovered early on in ballet, I also had to face the reality that this art form,

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was not originally intended for people who looked like me. In my third year as a corps de ballet member, the decision was made to exclude me from a filmed production of "Swan Lake"

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In a single sentence, everything I loved about ballet, the beauty, the discipline, the stability it had given me

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questioning whether this was truly a place for me to be in this world of ballet that I had dedicated myself to. And yet the next morning, I came back to the studio.

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It was showing up again even when my heart was broken. More than a decade later, it was that same ballet, that damn "Swan Lake,"

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And yet, in that pressure, I returned to what ballet had always been for me. A language of artistry.

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Raven had been the first Black woman to dance in a major American ballet company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in the 1950s,

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to dance in a major American ballet company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in the 1950s, performing across segregated America

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and beauty into legacy. In 2015, I was promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, the first Black woman in the company’s then 75-year history.

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someone who definitely helped me to expand the audience that we were reaching through ballet; through the Misty Copeland Foundation,

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through the Misty Copeland Foundation, bringing ballet into communities that once felt excluded; through books,

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To create beauty even when the ground beneath you is unsteady. That is the resilience that ballet gave me. And resilience is a skill we can all draw on,

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