Get out your tights, stretch out those hammies, and head to the barre—November brings World Ballet Day… though there seems to ...

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Despite the success of dancers such as Misty Copeland and Michaela DePrince, the ballet world is still inherently white. For decades, dancers of colour have had no choice but to wear pale pink or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“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, ...