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Born September 10, 1982 (age 44) • Kansas City • Missouri

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Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland performs a grand jete center stage in an orange ruffled dress during American Ballet Theater's Don Quixote, with dancers and musicians watching in the background.
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Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
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George Balanchine.
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