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Tonya (Tanya) Mosley

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144 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

No dancing.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

No dancing.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

No dancing at all.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

How did you approach that time period, the things that you wanted to do, the insights you wanted to discover about yourself, stepping away from ballet?

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Yeah.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Why do you think that is?

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Because that's where you get all of the response to all of the work that you've put in.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Folks are standing, they're clapping for you.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

They're just giving you their flowers, literally.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

You know, Misty, you always seem so composed.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

And I got to watch the standing ovation at the end, the 15 minutes.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

But in that moment, you were also dealing with a hip injury.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Yeah.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Yeah.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

Oh, Misty, every time I think about you, I think about

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

the pain that you endure.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

I mean, all ballerinas to a certain extent, but yours, you've been so open about it.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

You've documented it.

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

When did you first begin to understand maybe your relationship to pain, to control it rather than to let it control you?

Fresh Air
Misty Copeland Begins A New Chapter

You revealed to us some years ago that you've been painting your own pointe shoes for years to match your skin tone.