Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (41 page)

guest performances in,
100
–101

in rehearsal,
219

role of Clara in,
87
,
101
,
139
,
160
,
161

Olu (friend),
194
–97,
214
,
221

Osipova, Natalia,
240
,
249

Pacific Northwest Ballet,
97
,
98

Palos Verdes Art Center,
62

Paquita
,
145

Paris Opera Ballet,
98

Pavam, Renata,
153

Peterson, Kirk,
139
,
144
–45,
224

Petite Mort
,
230

Phillips, Jackie,
11
–12,
30
,
111

“Please Mr. Postman,”
20
,
247

Pointe
magazine,
74
,
115

Point Fermin Elementary School,
16
,
26
,
89

Poitier, Sidney,
77

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
192

Premice, Josephine,
181

Prince,
213
–25,
235
,
242

“The Beautiful Ones,”
220
,
222

“Crimson and Clover” video,
214
–15,
219
,
223

European tour of,
216
–18

in performance,
216
,
217
,
218
,
221
,
226
,
236
,
260

photo shoot with,
218
–19

Purple Rain
,
214
,
220

rehearsals with,
220
–21

Welcome to America tour,
219
,
220
,
222

Princess Grace Foundation,
201
–2,
229
–30

prodigy, use of term,
71
–72

Project Plié,
260

Push Comes to Shove
,
149
,
151
,
224

Ratmansky, Alexei,
4
–5,
239
–40,
243

Ratto, Kaylen,
128
,
138
,
213

Ray (mother’s friend),
55
,
58
–60,
68

Raymonda
,
109

Reina (friend),
26
,
31

Richardson, David,
225

Robert (stepfather),
18

background of,
14
–15

and Cameron,
61
,
83
,
110

home of,
16
,
21
,
46
,
126

leaving,
24
,
47
,
53
–55,
57
,
61
,
68
,
86

life with,
46
–48,
49
–52,
53
,
59
,
75
,
211

and Misty’s childhood,
22
,
24

and Misty’s teen years,
47
–48,
49
,
203

racism of,
51
–52,
53
,
174
,
208

temper of,
48
,
50
,
54
,
126

Robinson, Smokey,
232

Romeo and Juliet
,
74
,
262

Rowell, Victoria,
179
–81,
182
,
188

Royal Ballet (London),
98
,
178
,
229

Royal Danish Ballet,
98
,
229

Ryder, Winona,
74

Salstein, Craig,
152
,
201
–2

San Francisco, summers in,
100
,
103
,
109
,
114
,
204

San Francisco Ballet,
97
–98,
139
,
140
,
163

offer to Misty from,
104
,
108
,
111
–12,
113
,
118

summer program,
99
,
102
–6,
107
–9,
113
,
119
,
129
,
135

San Pedro, California,
14
–16,
133
–34,
146
,
174

Boys and Girls Club,
30
,
32
–33,
42
,
56
,
185

San Pedro Ballet School,
36
–38

San Pedro Dance Center,
41
–43,
66
,
70
,
92
,
117
,
129

San Pedro High School,
85
,
87
,
119
,
125
–26,
127

Segerstrom Center for the Arts,
242
,
244

Serrano, Lupe,
92

Sleeping Beauty
,
2
–3,
105

Grand Pas de Deux
,
230
–31

pas de deux
,
152

Puss in Boots,
229

Special Olympics,
85

Spotlight Awards,
90
–91,
95
,
96
,
97
,
135
,
136
,
139
,
183
,
202

Squire, Gilda,
227

Stravinsky, Igor,
1
,
237

Studio Museum, Harlem,
227

Stuttgart Ballet,
98

Sunset Inn,
60
–61,
64
,
65
,
68
,
83
,
115
,
116
,
123
,
126
,
127

Swan Lake
,
165
,
192
,
197
,
243
,
262

African American/black dancers in,
173
–76

danse des petits cygnes
,
172
–74

pas de trois
,
230

TV broadcast of,
173
–74

as “white ballet,”
174

Sylvia
,
175
,
185

Tarantella
,
201
–2

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich,
105
,
172

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
,
221

Tharp, Twyla,
149
–50,
224

Tómasson, Helgi,
111
–12

Turning Point, The
(film),
148