Misty Copeland’s latest Under Armour ad reminds us that ballet is a sport |
Misty Copeland’s latest Under Armour ad reminds us that ballet is a sport
USA Today
For The Win: USA Today Sports
2017-07-19
Under Armour has a new ad out featuring Misty Copeland, guaranteed to both make you want to work out and perhaps pick up a poetry book. Saul Williams provides the backing poem, For Misty, with words as lyrical as her movements…
The systemic structure built to keep me in place
is the stage I dance on
Black and woman
Mothership’s my mother’s hips beheld deep space
Astronaut of corporal grace…
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