Advocacy

Nayara Lopes, a Brazilian Black woman, performs in the ballet Swan Lake. As Odette (the White San), she wears an ornate white costume, with tutu and headdress.
Photo: Arian Molina Soca
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The Real Work of Undoing Racism in Ballet

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

After a painful whiteface incident at the Finnish National Ballet, Principal Dancer Nayara Lopes returns to Philadelphia Ballet.

Zaquia Salinas kneels on a yoga mat in a naturally-lit studio with wood walls and flooring. She embodies a grounded, punk energy, with a half-shaved head and an all-black outfit of a muscle shirt and capri-length workout pants. Her hands gesture out from her body as she speaks to a class of participants who are similarly seated on yoga mats with blocks surrounding them. The participants include one black-haired individual whose head is foregrounded in the image, one white-haired individual in t-shirt and shorts on the opposite side of the room, and a brown-haired person laying down on their stomach reading from their journal as Zaquia speaks.
Photo: WATS (You've Scene Enough Productions)
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Teaching Embodied Activism

ankita

A conversation with Zaquia Salinas

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