Is the return of slim the next women’s body trend? In its annual report of yearly procedures for 2023, the American Society ...

Alena Corniea, a sophomore dance major at the University of Minnesota, said she struggled with body image and disordered eating during her early teenage years related to her dance environment. Corniea ...

Former dancers have said there is a long-running "toxic" culture of body-shaming and bullying at two of the UK's most prestigious ballet schools. The BBC has spoken to more than 50 ex-students of ...

Dozens more ballet dancers have described body-shaming and bullying at schools across the UK, following a BBC investigation earlier this year. One ex-Elmhurst Ballet School student says she was ...

This is nothing new or unique to my experience: Dancers so often hyperfocus on their bodies because they are the tools with which they create their art. In ballet especially, being extremely thin ...

At the end of May and early in June, I went to two dance performances by the Los Angeles Ballet and by Bodytraffic ... gender in romantic roles as well as body types – were all reconsidered.

There is nothing quite as graceful as two ballet dancers floating across a stage, their bodies echoing one another, and their movements conveying a thousand emotions without anyone speaking a word.

The Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Ballet and Opera, the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, Campaign for the Arts and the Musicians’ Union are among the bodies to have submitted ...