As part of their ongoing mission to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community, Nashville Ballet is excited to announce that they will be transitioning each of their artists into dancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jemima says there needs to be greater representation in ballet uniform Jemima has always loved ballet but was left feeling excluded over the lack of different skin tone uniform options available to ...

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 ...

“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, ...

“These” were supports – elastic contraptions designed to hoist the family jewels out of harm’s way as the male dancer plies, jettes, ­pirouettes and attempts other potentially nut-cracking manoeuvres.