That year she was also named the ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar. In 2000 Copeland won another full scholarship, this time to the ABT’s intensive summer program. She continued studying ballet at Lauridsen Ballet Centre in Torrance, California. Copeland moved back in with her family and began attending San Pedro High School. That same year a custody battle ensued between the Bradleys and Copeland’s mother, who, at that time, was living with her children in a motel. That summer she was accepted with a full scholarship into the intensive summer program at the San Francisco Ballet.
In 1998, at age 15, she won first prize in the ballet category of the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards. When her training became more intensive, Copeland moved in with Bradley and her family in order to be closer to the studio. Copeland’s natural ability was quickly recognized by Bradley, and, though age 13 was a late start for a serious dance career, Copeland began taking classes with Bradley at the San Pedro Ballet School. The team’s coach noticed her talent and recommended that she attend ballet classes taught by Cynthia Bradley at the local Boys & Girls Club. Her first formal encounter with dance was on the drill team of her middle school. When young, Copeland moved with her family from Kansas City to San Pedro, California.
Misty Copeland and her siblings grew up with a single mother whose several failed marriages resulted in financial instability. Misty Copeland, (born September 10, 1982, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.), American ballet dancer who, in 2015, became the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
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