Natalie Portman's Husband Reveals the Reason He Quit His Job

[sheshe2]

But now, he's revealing in a documentary that his real reason for leaving was a direct response to racism in the industry, according to Page Six. In the film he explains:

I heard someone say a black girl in a ballet is a distraction. If there are 25 white girls, everyone will look at the black girl. Everyone must be alike in a company, meaning everyone must be white."

He decided it was up to him to make a change, saying, "I have to shatter this racist idea."


Per Huffington Post, Millepied assumed his role at Opera de Paris with high hopes of dragging the "300-year-old company into the 21st century, in part by incorporating more dancers of color into an industry with a lily-white past."

"For the first time at Opera de Paris," according to the film via Page Six, "Benjamin Millepied [gave] a mixed-race dancer the lead role in a classical ballet." That dancer, according to arts and culture website Thalo, was Letizia Galloni.

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Bravo.

[brer cat]

1. What utter BS.

I hope he is wildly successful. Thanks for the post, sheshe. I would have missed it otherwise.

[sheshe2]

2. A distraction. OMFG!

I heard someone say a black girl in a ballet is a distraction. If there are 25 white girls, everyone will look at the black girl. Everyone must be alike in a company, meaning everyone must be white."

I as well hope Millepied is successful in diversifying the ballet.

Thanks brer. I sure hope Misty Copeland makes her way to Boston someday. I would love to see her dance.

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Lucinda]

3. KNR

[progressoid]

4. France, like many European nations is seeing a growth in racism and xenophobia .

Of course it's often hidden in the guise of protecting traditional French culture.

[sheshe2]

5. Bottom line.

White people are in fear of losing their power. Ef that so says a white person.

Well they did a shit ass job when they had it. They need to lose their power, there are far better and more diverse people that will take their place. With them America can grow again.



All colors are beautiful.
Our future.

[uponit7771]

10. Putin is a white nationalist, the white supremacist in the US relate to that

[Blue_Tires]

6. k+r

[heaven05]

7. the only thing

any of us can hope for....is that the human race finally realizes, that is all we are:THE HUMAN RACE.....

[sheshe2]

8. I could not agree with you more, heaven.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[brer cat]

12. We hope for it

and it must happen. We must not go back. I don't see the way forward, but I have to believe it is there and we will find it. You are so right, heaven, the human race must realize that it is all of us...together.