Why I'm so over dancers as athletes (or, why Misty Copeland is an artist)

The highest praise for a dancer these days is to call her “an athlete.” What is wrong with “artist”? Why prolong the inferiority complex about art? Let’s get past that whole macho-athlete-branding thing. Take a look a this gorgeous dance by Sergei Polunin to Hozier’s "Take Me to Church," directed by David LaChapelle: The dance […]