Building a top-notch ballet company should not be as easy as the Aspen Ballet Company has made it seem. It should be especially difficult to create that dance company in a small town, out of a dance ...

NEW YORK — Theater does not consist of words alone. And much of what can be sublime in theater goes beyond words. It is true that all the great choreographers are also among the great makers of ...

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form. Embraced by celebrities and fashion icons like Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Portman, and Alexa Chung, ...

Tracy Somani and her classmates exercise toe extensions in a Philadelphia Ballet class for adults who have never danced ballet before. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

If you feel like you dance with two left feet, wait until you meet Robert "Bobby" Barnett, who turned 100 on May 6 and is still in his dancing shoes. Barnett, who grew up in Washington state and was ...

Not even a minute after the first dancers appeared onstage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Friday did a band of pirates gambol in and demand the audience’s attention. Unsurprisingly in a ballet ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Elizabeth B. Yntema’s Dance Data Project has been using a steady drumbeat of numbers to push the ballet world to action on gender equality. By ...

Houston Ballet's season opened Thursday with some stellar performances, memorable eye candy and superbly played music — although I left the Wortham Theater Center feeling more ambivalent than I liked.