Today's Dance Edit: March with dance leaders on Juneteenth

June 17, 2020

"In the dance world, we're realizing that there are injustices within ballet, but it's so much bigger than ballet. It's bleeding into every part of Black and brown lives and the Black and brown experience." —Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Amanda Morgan on why she's protesting racial injustice

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Join New York City dance leaders for the first annual Juneteenth March this Friday in downtown Manhattan. (Dance Magazine)
The Joffrey Ballet became one of the first major U.S. dance companies to cancel performances through 2021—including The Nutcracker. (Chicago Sun Times)
Several pointe shoe manufacturers recently announced they would offer more inclusive shades of shoes. Now it's time for more dancewear companies to reckon with their implicit biases. (Dance Spirit)
A Dutch National Ballet artist danced through the streets of Amsterdam in a six-foot tutu to demonstrate social distancing protocol. (Classic FM)

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#TFW you and your besties show up to shut down your racist uncle in the Facebook comments section.
(Project 21 dancers photographed by Quinn Wharton for Dance Spirit)

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