Career Highlights

(Misty performing her role in Firebird at ABT)

    Misty Copeland started her career at the American Ballet Theater in 2000. Throughout her time there she was in many productions and played countless roles. On the ABT website they actually have a list of the roles she has played, to name a few she played, “ erpsichore in Apollo, Gamzatti, a Shade and the Lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère, Milkmaid in The Bright Stream, the Fairy Autumn in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Blossom in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Swanilda and the Mazurka Lady in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Kitri, Mercedes, Driad Queen, the lead gypsy and a flower girl in Don Quixote, Duo Concertant, the Masks in Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII, Lise in Las Fille mal gardée, the Firebird in Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird...” (ABT) and believe it or not the list goes to state so many more roles and it is so impressive that she played so many roles while also being someone so many people admire and look up to.

                                             ( A small look at Misty Copeland in Firebird)