When Alexandra Francois went to parties with lively music playing as a little girl, she couldn’t resist getting out of her chair and doing her thing. “People would just step aside” when Alexandra took ...

I have a toddler who has shown interest in lots of different activities, forms of play and movies in his big three years. Proudly, he is encouraged to express himself however he likes and we follow ...

Olivia Bell is an alum and mentor for Brown Girls Do Ballet who says her mentors and the community she developed through the program helped in her journey from growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ...

NEW YORK CITY -- 9-year-old April and 10-year-old Brooke were banned from performing in the annual "Black Nutcracker" in New York City because of their braids, according to their mother. Every year ...

A dancer ran up to her ballet teacher, sweat trickling down her face, as a mix of professional and local ballet dancers finished warming up on stage. "Miss Marisa, I hit a triple [pirouette] in warm ...

Canton Ballet has announced a new partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Massillon, offering free dance instruction to students ages 6–12 as part of a reward-based enrichment initiative. The ...

Rochester Hills International Academy Okma student Nily Samara founded a nonprofit to share her love of ballet. The organization has worldwide reach and has given more than $9,000 worth of apparel and ...

Dancer Nia Towe had been keeping a secret for months. Last week, Towe, who was born and raised in Chicago, settled in to watch an episode of reality television with her family and boyfriend. On-screen ...

The stages of New York City are no strangers to stunt casting (just look at all the celebrities who have graced Broadway’s finest shows through the years), but in the new Prime Video series Étoile, ...

Featured performers in Sadler Arts Academy's "Nutcracker" say they learned much about the classical ballet over the past few ...

Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...