For years Copeland was told that her skin color, her body and her hair didn't conform to what ballerinas were supposed to look like.Her memoir is The Wind at My Back.
Twyla Moves, a new documentary by PBS American Masters, tells the story of the legendary choreographer, who got her start performing on subway platforms and rooftops in the 1960s.
The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. And when she wants her 3-year-old daughter to open up, she talks to her in the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
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Terry Gross
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