With choreography by Wang Peixian and a score by Xu Zhong, the show fuses tradition and innovation across every element of its staging. Courtesy Shanghai Grand Theatre “We call snake years ‘mini ...

Jake Roxander, a virtuosic wonder at American Ballet Theater, was promoted onstage after a recent performance. The news ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the ballet world, Reece Clarke is royalty — and it seems the whole world is falling for him. The principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London has risen quickly through the ranks. He’s ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

Sergeant Oleksandr Dushakov, a ballet dancer, is fighting against the Russian invasion. He says training and his feel for the forest are helping him survive. He says his experience as a dancer has ...