Calls for change over race, gender in competitive-dance industry
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NORTH CAROLINA • In spring, Ms Siara Fuller, artistic director of Charlotte Performing Arts Academy in North Carolina, took a group of students to a dance competition in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
It was, in many ways, an ordinary weekend within the extraordinary world of competitive dance: Hundreds of young dancers assembled at a convention centre, donned glittery costumes and giant false lashes, and presented spit-polished routines for judges.
