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"I never thought I could make a career out of something I enjoyed doing something I was passionate about, something that gave me a voice," says Copeland, who is one of the first African Americans to be a soloist with American Ballet Theatre._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 28, 2015 4:31 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 28, 2015 4:31 PM UTC At the funeral for a New Zealand teacher Dawson Tamatea, who died in his sleep at age 55, students at Palmerston North Boys’ High School in Manawatu performed a haka, a traditional dance and war chant native to New Zealand’s Maori people. (The All Blacks rugby team can usually be seen doing the ancestral tribute before a match.) The “entire school” performed the emotional tribute as the hearse arrived, according to a description of the video on YouTube. School rector David Bovey described the performance as “spine-tingling” in an interview with [ONE News.](https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/entire-kiwi-school-performs-spine-tingling-haka-for-fallen-teacher-q03259) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] The way that dance came into my life was very unexpected. I was 13 years old living in a motel with my single parent, my mother, and five of my siblings. I never thought I could make a career out of something I enjoyed doing, something I was passionate about, something that gave me a voice. There's just been a, a whole slew of African- American -. Women who have just really pushed me and motivated me during those times that I didn't know if I could do it. Raven Wilkinson, one of the first African American ballerinas to dance in a major ballet company. It's important for me to set an example of what a healthy image is. What a ballerina can be. That she doesn't have to be a white woman, that's rail thin [ LAUGH ]. That she can, she can look like the world and I think that's what American Ballet Theater also helps to represent is what American's look like, and that dreams are possible here and that you really can. Push yourself to become anything with the right work ethic and support around you. [ MUSIC ] I hope to see more diversity on the stage when I'm 60 years old. Watching in the audience. I hope the audience is more diverse. I think that's why people go to see performances. They want to see something beautiful but they also want to seem themselves up there. They want to be able to dream of what maybe they dream about doing. You know, going up there and dancing but it's hard to envision that when. And you don't see yourself represented up there. I would want a younger child looking at me on the cover, to see themselves. To see endless opportunities, to see possibilities that maybe they never even thought were something that they could attain. I want them to be able to see. 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