foreign are you an award-winning ballerina you're also you made history by being the first female dancer African-American in the American Ballet we've even got a Barbie yes designed after you so tell the viewers with flower what you want the viewers to take away from it yeah I think I want people to really understand the power of dance and that dance is a universal language you don't all have to speak the same language you don't even have to speak to understand and and see the power of it and then taking this kind of uh very human and real concept of um connecting to a community so you think about ballet we think about these kind of fairy tale stories like a Swan Lake or a Sleeping Beauty but I wanted to take a community that I feel connected to the community of Oakland California and tell the story of what they're actually experiencing [Music]