PAC NYC Icons of Culture Festival brings audiences into the room with trailblazers in music, comedy, film, sports, and more to talk about pushing boundaries, making a mark, and elevating the everyday to the iconic.

The festival features cultural change-makers sharing their personal journeys and powerful insights, encouraging us all to be iconic in our own lives.

 

Misty Copeland is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, the first Black woman to be promoted to the position in the company’s 75-year history in 2015. She has performed Odette/Odile in Swan Lake; Juliet in Romeo & Juliet; Giselle; Manon; Coppelia; Kitri in Don Quixote; and Firebird, to name a few.

She has performed alongside cultural icons Prince, Taylor Swift, as well as H.E.R on the televised Prince Grammy Tribute. Misty made her Broadway debut in On The Town in 2015 and her major motion picture debut in Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms in 2018.

Misty is an avid philanthropist and in 2022, she launched The Misty Copeland Foundation, with its first signature program be bold, which aims to bring greater diversity, equity, and inclusion to dance, especially ballet. She is an ambassador and alum of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.