{"id":1183,"date":"2016-08-09T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2016-08-09T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T04:11:00","slug":"misty-copeland-on-the-perpetual-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/misty-copeland-on-the-perpetual-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland on the perpetual pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland<\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0ballet\u00a0dancer for\u00a0American Ballet Theatre.\u00a0Last year she became the first\u00a0African American\u00a0woman to be promoted to\u00a0principal dancer at a major American ballet company. She knows something about the perpetual pursuit:<\/p>\n

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The full quote, from an interview in Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> magazine, 4 August 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no taking days off. We\u2019re as good as our last performance, and you\u2019re constantly working to be better every day. So there\u2019s not a lot of time to kind of sit back and lose that fire. Once you lose it, it\u2019s kind of over and you retire, because the audience sees it, if you\u2019re not keeping up with your training and your technique. So I think that either the day my body can\u2019t handle it anymore or the day I lose the passion and fire for it, I\u2019ll stop.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Misty Copeland\u00a0is a\u00a0ballet\u00a0dancer for\u00a0American Ballet Theatre.\u00a0Last year she became the first\u00a0African American\u00a0woman to be promoted to\u00a0principal dancer at a major American ballet company. She knows something about the perpetual pursuit: The full quote, from an interview in Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, 4 August 2016: “There\u2019s no taking days off. We\u2019re as good as our last performance, and you\u2019re constantly working to be better every day. So there\u2019s not a lot of time to kind of sit back and lose that fire. Once you lose it, it\u2019s kind of over and you retire, because the audience sees it, if you\u2019re not keeping … Continue reading Misty Copeland on the perpetual pursuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[20,154,17,46,40,59],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-commitment","tag-dance","tag-passion","tag-perpetual-pursuit","tag-practice","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}