First things first, aficionados of ethereal dance: If you sign up for a free online session with the Los Angeles Ballet, you will not need to rise to your toes by the close of the class. But consider ...

Before joining the board of directors of A.V.A. Ballet Theatre, the resident ballet company of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, my knowledge of ballet would fit in a thimble. Three quarters ...

Cardio, schmardio. For the ultimate body and mind workout, some harried adults are pirouetting back in time — and signing themselves up for ballet class. Whether it’s curious first-timers looking to ...

Ballet has always had a complicated relationship with gender. In the classical roles we watch on stage, men play princes and heartbreakers who leap high in the air and take up entire stages with large ...

Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines" Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as ...

Ballet training begins at the barre, but in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, a kitchen counter and the back of a couch has become a substitute for even America's most elite ballerinas. When the ...

Pointe shoes start out beautiful - satin works of art, each made with a graceful purpose in mind. But behind the beauty are hours of hard work, discipline and pain. The shoes can give a trained ...

World Ballet Company adapted "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous tale of greed and corruption in the Roaring ...

Like most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent Garden maker that now belongs to the French house Repetto. Always eager to ...

LONDON : It was a pointed comment about her Afro-braided hair that spurred Ruth Essel to carve out what she calls a safe space for Black dancers. The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London ...