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Barre Benders: Dancers Misty Copeland, Shannon Harkins, Shiori Kase, Chi Cao Moving Ballet from Racism Towards Reform

Following a more recent debate, ballet still may or may not be considered a sport. And yet, ballet has a larger problem at hand in dealing with race and, if you couldn't tell, self-image. Katherine Brooks writes in the Huffington Post, "Take one look at the dance landscape of the world's most popular ballet companies and it's not difficult to see that white men and women dominate the field."