What do you think of when you hear the word "ballet"?
Ballet is a type of dance!
Dancers work to use their movement skills, music, and costumes to tell stories.
Ballets have solos, ensemble groups, and smaller group dances.
Misty Copland talks about how ballet dancing is about how the dancer is a total artist.
Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.
This is very famous and intense ballet called "Firebird."
Misty performs a solo with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.