Short Story of the Week: A Hard-Won Triumph

Photo by Vogue/Gregg Delman.

On March 4, Misty Copeland’s highly anticipated memoir Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina will be in stores. Despite the odds stacked against her, Misty served as the first African-American female soloist in more than two decades at American Ballet Theatre.

I’m sure I’d heard her name once or twice before, but I fully learned the impact of her accomplishments when she was awarded on Black Girls Rock 2013. As I recalled on my personal blog, her speech took me back to the time when I was in my first ballet class, and I was the only one. 

Thanks to Misty’s publishers, we can now all enjoy a longer excerpt from the beginning of the book on Scribd.

What I love about this story:

• She teases the reader up front, before pacing the events leading up to her big debut as the first black woman to star in Igor Stravinsky’s iconic role, the Firebird.
• With just a few lines, she draws us into her world of pliés, port de bras and fondus.
• She makes it clear from the introduction that although the book tells her story, its purpose is to inspire the black ballet phenoms of the future.

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If you want to hear more about her story, catch Misty at a book appearance this March.

Every week, we will look to post a short story that catches our eye — a little inspiration for our contributors.