Emma Andres (pictured) is a professional ballet dancer and contemporary/classical ballet choreographer who also has experience working in the techniques of jazz, contemporary, and modern. She is ...

The road to a professional dance career is never smooth. Certainly, there are speed bumps you plan for and expect. But it's the unseen twists and turns beyond the horizon, just out of reach, that ...

Since 1964, when it became the second building constructed on the new Lincoln Center campus, the New York State Theater (known since November 2008 as the David H. Koch Theater) has been home to the ...

While most professional dancers begin training at age seven or eight, Luiz Silva had never heard of ballet until age 15. Silva's meteoric journey from his first dance class to the ranks of the ...

CounterPointe was born in 2012 from a desire to support ballet by women dancemakers working with the pointe shoe. “We wanted to make it a little bit easier for women to get their work seen and ...

Five bamboo stalks rise from the stage. Dancers move like spirits of the grove — arms and legs stretching skyward, lines taut ...

Herman Cornejo wouldn’t want to give himself advice. After 26 years with American Ballet Theatre, the principal dancer isn’t sure there’s anything he knows now that he wishes he’d known when he was ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference. Olivia Book, who is from Grimsby, Ontario, on the shore of Lake ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dancers had accused Demis Volpi of creating a “toxic working environment” in his 10 months at the company, and five principal dancers had resigned. By ...