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 ...

Every year, young El Paso ballerinas get both excited and nervous about auditioning for the national touring company of the "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet." For the ballerinas, it's an ...

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 ...

When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian was researching ballet classes for her daughter, she noticed a pattern. The majority of students and instructors at the ballet studios she found were white. She didn’t ...

Artistic director Sophie Williams uses the term “female forward” when describing Pointeworks, the contemporary ballet organization she founded that sold out its inaugural show at The Conrad in La ...

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladinoare unconcerned that a TV show they create will be too niche, even when it comes to the often-obscure world of ballet. Nearly two years from the last episode of ...

As the world’s population ages, exercise advice targeting older adults has become more popular. Social dance, specifically, has been considered a good exercise for those of increasing age because it ...