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December 2, 2020
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"When the premiere arrived, [the ballet mistress] told me that all the women needed to color their skin with white powder. I told her that I would never look white, and she replied: 'You'll just put on more powder than the others.' "
—Black dancer Chloé Lopes Gomes, alleging institutional racism at Staatsballett Berlin
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Sitting, but never still.
(Okwui Okpokwasili photographed by Jayme Thornton for Dance Magazine)
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