Cincinnati Ballet’s “60th Celebration” was supposed to be just what the name suggests – a gathering to sing the praises of the company’s first six decades. And it was that. But, whether by design or ...

This fall the offerings at American Ballet Theater, now in its 85th year, included a tepid premiere and touching debuts in ...

Houston Ballet has a classical backbone but its Fall Mixed Repertory Program shows the company's deep contemporary muscle. Even better, it represents three generations of choreographers who are part ...

“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and ...

Lots of folks got their boogie on at the 44th annual dance-a-thon to benefit muscular dystrophy. The event took place at the Beverly Bernardi Post Conservatory of Dance, and featured dancing in ballet ...

Of all the pursuits that inspire, and sometimes require, a vocational devotion among children—figure skating, say, or chess—ballet trumps them all. Its standards are exacting, its devotees are ...

The first piece Twyla Tharp choreographed was for herself and four other dancers. Tank Dive premiered at New York’s Hunter College in 1965. Tharp walked out in a pair of high-heeled shoes and ...

Scottish Ballet’s interpretation of Tennessee William’s 1947 play “A Streetcar Named Desire” begins with a single stark image: the fallen Southern belle Blanche Dubois, in a snow-white dress, ...

Professional ballet dancers have more control over their muscles than individuals with no dance training, new research shows. A new article in Journal of Neurophysiology reports that professional ...

‘Firebird’ brings in new voices, and new perspectives. “Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who ...