First Black girl cast as Marie in “The Nutcracker” for New York City Ballet
She is so cute!! Good for her. I love her attitude.
But for Charlotte, although she thinks being the first Black Marie is a big deal, she says it’s not different because it’s “just how I grew up,” the Times reports. Dance is what’s most important to her.
“To me, it just feels like when I dance. I feel free and I feel empowered,” Charlotte told The New York Times. “I feel like I can do anything when I dance. It makes me happy, and I’m going to do what makes me happy. You don’t need to think about anything else.”
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 11, 2019 6:43 PM
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It’s sad that this is news worthy.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 3, 2019 2:51 PM
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It’s sad that this is news worthy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 3, 2019 2:51 PM
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But they've changed it to a hip-hop theme and renamed it, "Crack Dem Nutz". Lots of booty-popping choreography.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 3, 2019 3:00 PM
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She’s quite clearly mixed race. Why are they only saying Black?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 3, 2019 3:03 PM
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Why? So that creatures like [R4] can have an opportunity to put down their cheez doodles and Red Bull and post racist, ignorant shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 3, 2019 3:59 PM
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Something about Nutcracker always creeped me out. The uncle who gives her the nutcracker always seemed a bit skeevy, then he turns out to be the prince from her dream. At least in the production I saw.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 3, 2019 4:39 PM
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In NYC, this isn’t news. Try it in Boise and see what happens.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 3, 2019 7:43 PM
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What would happen? Nothing.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 3, 2019 8:11 PM
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R6 It is unfortunate. I always hope that people such as R4 get hit by a bus.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 3, 2019 11:36 PM
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[quote]She’s quite clearly mixed race. Why are they only saying Black?
Because most of the flyover tourists who come to watch only see "black."
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 7, 2019 4:43 PM
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[quote]The annual production also includes a diverse cast of other young leads this season, including Tanner Quirk, Marie’s Prince in the ballet, who is half-Chinese; Sophia Thomopoulos, the ballet’s second casting of Marie, who is half-Korean and half-Greek; and Kai Misra-Stone, Sophia’s Prince, who is half-South Asian.
[quote]Charlotte, whose mother’s family is from Trinidad while her father’s side of the family is from the Philippines, is becoming a trailblazer herself with the role of Marie.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 7, 2019 4:48 PM
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Why did they choose a photo in which she has such an obnoxious, smug look on her face?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 7, 2019 8:03 PM
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She's a showbiz kid, R16. Would you prefer that obnoxious pose where a precocious gayling has his hands under his chin?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 7, 2019 8:22 PM
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She was inspired by Misty Copeland aka Fakerina.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 11, 2019 4:33 PM
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How do you solve a problem like Marie?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 11, 2019 4:57 PM
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The little girl in The Nutcracker has always been named Clara. When did this "Marie" shit start up?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 11, 2019 6:21 PM
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Are they setting it in the Bronx and changing the mouse to a rat?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 11, 2019 6:43 PM
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