Zeni Perez’s Reviews > The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History > Status Update

Don’t be humble when you’re already trying to be erased by others 🙌

Marcia working for the DA 🥹 I’m glad she found purpose outside of dance

Poor Gayle :( all the stress of being mistress might have led to cancer omg

Mitchell rejecting the dancers that left for a film is ridiculous. He admitted it himself, he can’t offer the salaries Hollywood could—Harlem’s best offer was 10k? Please

Maybe Mitchell was gay or bi but living in that time his internalized homophobia was more about protecting his company & dancers than it was about himself. Being black was already new & hard in classical dance so to add sexuality into it, it’s just only adapted in recent years now.

Seeing someone like you on a cover of a magazine makes all the world of difference 🥺

I’m happy Gayle got her moment 🥹 Also Abarca getting to do Revlon & married in the same year wow—at least one of them worked out

A musician cheating on a dancer… classic. What pressure Gayle must’ve been over to be the ballet mistress when she was once just in the ensemble. The part where she said you can’t complain about not being the lead when you’re working your dream job 👌

I understand Mitchell being unimpressed with critics reviews because he’s right,there have always been black dancers in classical dance—they just weren’t allowed on stage to show how good they are until he made the platform for it. What a relief to have their own space due to a philanthropist.

Mitchell kissing his muse & continuing the narrative of skinny is desired in ballet was a turn… you’d think he was gay