The New York Times
- Apollinaire Scherr
In depicting the psychic load a black artist bears in a predominantly white profession, Life in Motion is wrenching and revelatory.
Publishers Weekly03/31/2014
The first African-American soloist in the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) of New York City, Copeland was a latecomer to the art and took her first class at age 13.Told in graceful prose, the memoir recounts her quick but singular rise—her struggles with compulsive overeating, racism, injuries, and self-doubt, as well as high points like discovering acceptance in the melting pot of New York, reconnecting with her father, founding her own dance-wear company, and performing with Prince.
