When we think of ballet, we often imagine lithe, lean, long-limbed ballerinas gracefully and effortlessly performing demanding technical feats. However, maintaining a body that fulfills this aesthetic ...

Christopher Wheeldon has a guilty secret. “I grew up listening to Phantom of the Opera,” he says. “As an 11-year-old, those big blockbuster musicals were everything. Seeing Starlight Express: it was ...

There is a ballet class that takes place in the East Village of New York most Mondays at 10:45 a.m. It has all the markings of a makeshift studio: an abandoned stage, portable barres, two small ...

Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her.

Never before have humans lived such a disembodied existence. Many of us spend our days hunched over the computer, ignoring our body until our limbs go numb. As of 2011, only about 20 percent of ...

The idealized look in the 1980s was muscular and toned (with leg warmers). That morphed into the skeletal “heroin chic” of the ’90s. More recently, a curvier physique with a big buttocks has dominated ...

ONLY, one hopes, in San Francisco: The San Francisco Ballet is under attack these days for being much too good at what it does. There is a great misunderstanding about the nature of classical ballet.

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If youve always desired the sleek toned muscles of ballet dancers this workout is for you Jennifer Galardi has created five mini workouts blending exercises from classical ballet Pilates and yoga to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “On TikTok, rather than your technique going viral, you could have your ideas about ballet go viral.” Harper Watters, @theharperwatters, a Houston Ballet soloist, is the rare ...