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Profiles of Resilience: Trinity Cox

Trinity shares a beautiful story of determination that’s promised to inspire.

Profiles of Resilience: Barbara Harris

Barbara shares with Project Resilience her pursuit of her dreams and aspirations.

Profiles of Resilience: Paige Fraser

Paige shares with Project Resilience the tenacity required to over come what some would consider a career ending condition.

Featured Profile of Resilience: Anthony Javier Savoy

Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Anthony Savoy shares with us his journey of finding his own voice in a sea of opinions and criticisms.

Featured Profile of Resilience: Carina Isabel Ruiz

These words are unedited, and are some of the most moving of all the stories we’ve heard thus far. We introduce to you Carina Isabel Ruiz: “Hello Project Resilience, I’d never thought there would be a organization/project out there that would be willing to help young girls with hardships achieve their ballerina dreams. I used […]

Profiles of Resilience: Sydney Magruder

I am a third generation ballet dancer, the daughter and granddaughter of Black Ballerinas who never got the chance to pursue their dreams, choosing more traditional careers and motherhood instead. I came along after two tall and uncoordinated sisters who preferred the soccer field over the ballet barre, and by the time I was […]

Featured Profiles of Resilience: Lauren Anderson

Lauren Anderson “This is going to sound cheesy…Decades of classes, years of performances, hours of rehearsals, minutes of sacrifice and a lifetime of joy!!!!” Lauren Anderson is currently an instructor at Houston Ballet, In 1990, she was the first African American ballerina to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American […]

Featured Profiles of Resilience: Misty Copeland

Misty shares the loneliness and isolation at American Ballet Theatre she endured for over a decade that gave her the fuel to become one of the most successful ballerinas of all time.

Featured Profiles of Resilience: James Whiteside

James Whiteside “In order to reach this level of success in the dance world, I had to know my strengths and my weaknesses. If you don’t understand what you need to work on, how can you improve in those areas? I found myself studying the dancers around me, asking myself “why does it look so […]

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