I thought that would be too big and a suspension of disbelief. SUMMERS: So Nicole Cuffy switched gears and placed her protagonist, 22-year-old Cece Cordell, at another company.ĬUFFY: There is a lot of sort of contending with the fact of Misty Copeland in this book because I did not think that I could write fiction about a Black ballerina without acknowledging the reality. And then, in August of that same year, Misty Copeland was promoted as the first Black female principal at the American Ballet Theater. SUMMERS: Cuffy decided to turn that craving into a novel about the first Black woman promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater - an idea that quickly proved prescient.ĬUFFY: I kind of thought to myself at the time, well, what about Misty Copeland, you know? But I was like, I don't think they're going to promote her anytime soon. NICOLE CUFFY: I just had this craving to immerse myself in the world of dance. She also loves a nightly bath, where sometimes ideas come to her, like in May of 2015. Nicole Cuffy loves to dance and the art of ballet.
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