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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial homogeneity some traditions are ...

New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck is revered for her musicality. Even at a fast tempo, she finds a way to stretch time and luxuriate in the steps. But in "Ballet Now," a documentary directed ...

Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades. “I ...

I've always wanted to be one of those dedicated and cheerful "ballet moms" who researches summer dance camps for months and even sells cookie dough and Christmas wrapping paper for ballet-school ...

Choreographing Darren Aronofsky's thriller not only brought Benjamin Millepied into the spotlight, but also led to his romance with Natalie Portman. Rebecca Dana on the budding ballet star. There may ...

“These” were supports – elastic contraptions designed to hoist the family jewels out of harm’s way as the male dancer plies, jettes, ­pirouettes and attempts other potentially nut-cracking manoeuvres.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Echappe, jete, plie are not words used commonly in most classrooms, and certainly not classrooms occupied by a handful of teenage boys. But Raul Martinez’s ballet studio, and his ...

“When I first decided to form a ballet company, Mother said: ‘Dear, why don’t you just see a psychiatrist?’ I told her it would be cheaper to form a ballet company.” So Rebekah Harkness went ahead, ...