Accepted into the elite Juilliard School in 1961 at age 10, she spent four years there, the lone Black girl surrounded by affluent white girls. At the time, many ballet companies rejected Black ...

At 26 years old, his choreography and star performance in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" changed ballet forever ... That's why he turns the White Swan into the Black Swan, and the Black Swan deceives ...

The connection to Black Swan deepens with Split’s dance scene, in which one of Kevin’s alters, Hedwig, insists on showing off his moves - a twisted parallel to Nina’s ballet obsession.