Black Ballerina by Syreeta Hector is not your everyday ballet performance; it’s also one woman’s deeply personal exploration ...

Of all the circles of women I’ve been lucky to join over the years, perhaps the most precious one was on the floor of a Black dance studio in Austin, TX. While our 3-year-old girls practiced ...

to help take you from baby ballerina to full on prima. If possible, dancers with professional aspirations should begin ballet classes at an early age—usually between three and eight years old.

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own ...

Ballet in the 1930s and ’40s was still regarded as a European art ... obvious prima ballerina. “She was so clearly American,” Alexopoulos said, at a time when the best dancers came from ...

On Sunday, Director of Mzansi Ballet, Dirk Badenhorst, conferred upon Revie the honorary position of Prima Ballerina, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the art of ballet, her ...