“It has never been done, what Jennifer Homans has done in Apollo’s Angels,” said Toni Bentley in The New York Times. The dancer turned critic has written “the only truly definitive history” of ballet.

Ballet's history is not just about choreography and technique — it's also a history of nationalization, the changing ways we view the body,... The Tutu's Tale: A Cultural History Of Ballet's 'Angels' ...

Ballet flats will always be and have always been a go-to style for many. Casual and classy, the footwear style is enduring, having stuck around since the 1600s. From Amy Winehouse to Jackie Kennedy, ...

Beatrice Waterhouse happened to go to a college that had a notable dance program. She hadn’t taken a ballet class since her early teens, but she figured she’d take a course on the history of dance. It ...

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Friday, March 8, opening night of The Sarasota Ballet’s performances of Poetry and Liberty, marks an important moment in dance history, with the much-anticipated revival of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ...

She's American Ballet Theatre's first Black female principal dancer. Misty Copeland uses her voice to advocate for representation -- not only in dance, but also in the world -- and says she feels she ...

Starting February 5th Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet.org) will launch four new orbits to its popular The Constellation Project: Mapping the Dark Stars of Ballet: Raven Wilkinson, the First ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It comes as no surprise that the Live Music Capitol of the World is rich in artistic expression, especially dance. The variety of dance in Austin seems to be endless. There's ballet, ...

Ballet Florida, a dance school and professional company, operates fairly modestly on the local cultural scene. From its base on South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, it teaches students at its ...