AUSTIN, Texas — Ballet Afrique founder China Smith has been creating a safe space for Black dancers in East Austin for the last 17 years. Her ballet technique classes have all the makings of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --Ohio Contemporary Ballet returns to Playhouse Square Friday, Feb. 28 with “Echoes and Innovations.” The performances focus on influential choreographers of the past and visionary ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Ohio Contemporary Ballet will celebrate the careers of two longtime company dancers with a special farewell performance at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 21, at Cain Park’s Evans ...

The idea of sisterhood and brotherhood flows through “Symphonie Espagnole,” Peck’s new work for New York City Ballet. We ...

Los Angeles is neither a dance center nor a dance desert. We don’t have much of a history of nourishing major ballet companies. We do have a plethora of smaller companies — modern, classical and ...

The artists of the Boston Ballet opened their Winter Experience Thursday night, delivering a bill of four strong performances that combined elements of neoclassical American ballet and modern ...

San Francisco Ballet’s “Van Manen: Dutch Grandmaster” is an invigorating and accessible ode to contemporary ballet grandmaster Hans van Manen. This strikingly modern, technically stunning and ...

The elite performers of Complexions Contemporary Ballet took to the Opera House stage from March 20th to the 22nd for their first full company engagement at the Kennedy Center. In the same month that ...

When you go to the ballet, you often see female dancers in the spotlight. But in one special piece, it's the male dancer who is all alone and center stage. For the first time in six years, Boston ...

Boston Ballet’s “Fall Experience,” which ran from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3, opened the ballet company’s 2024 season at the Citizens Bank Opera House. Program inserts announced that the opening night ...

Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018) joined the New York City Ballet as its first African American star in 1955, when people commonly believed that Black dancers couldn't perform ballet. I encountered Mitchell ...