1 Exclusive: New Cast and Dates Announced for THE WIZ National Tour 2 Full Cast Announced for BOOP! THE MUSICAL National Tour The leading roles in Swan Lake, Odette/Odille and Prince Siegfried, are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emily Coates with Derek Lucci. Photo courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Observer spoke with Coates to discuss her work in process, some favorite archival discoveries and Balanchine’s ...

Fluency in a variety of movement techniques — street dance, acrobatics, parkour — allows site-responsive dancers to shape ...

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 ...