{"id":3525,"date":"2014-09-18T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2014-09-25T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:45:13","slug":"firebird-a-chat-withmisty-copeland-and-christopher-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"<em>Firebird<\/em>: A Chat with<br>Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/09\/MISTY_Photo Credit Gregg Delmanuse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/09\/Christopher Myers Illustrator Photouse1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Ballet is so rigorous and formally precise. I spent a lot of time watching videos of ballet and going to see Misty dance specifically, because as precise as ballet is, the specificity of her art was most important to me. I wanted not just to capture the excitement of ballet, but the thrill of watching Misty perform those precision moves, the artistry that she brings to it.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/home.html\">Misty Copeland<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Myers\">Christopher Myers<\/a><\/strong> (pictured above), the creators of <em>Firebird<\/em>, a picture book released by Putnam this month. That&#8217;s Chris quoted above, who is talking about Misty&#8217;s work as the second African American soloist in the history of the American Ballet Theatre. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/capturing-ballerinas-beauty\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some artwork from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos used with permission. Photo of Misty taken by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greggdelman.com\/\">Gregg Delman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ballet is so rigorous and formally precise. I spent a lot of time watching videos of ballet and going to see Misty dance specifically, because as precise as ballet is, the specificity of her art was most important to me. I wanted not just to capture the excitement of ballet, but the thrill of watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}