Why Have a Ballet Company Just for Dark-Skinned Dancers?

Cassa Pancho, founder of London’s Ballet Black: “The important thing in any specialised skill like ballet or sport is that you have someone reflective of you in the profession. … What may seem like a way of segregating people is actually there to show a concentrated amount of role models for kids coming up through the ranks. … The goal for Ballet Black ultimately is that it becomes obsolete.”