The Dancer That Flew: Keeping Time:

In the 1970's, the troupe of dancers is her livelihood at the tender age of eighteen. The dancer is talented. The dance manager's treatment of her is unequal to her counterparts. Despite this form of discrimination, some of this company recruiters believed in the fair skinned dancer's abilities, believing that she, as a Negro woman, could make a difference for all of the girls in America.