Black Ballerina by Syreeta Hector is not your everyday ballet performance; it’s also one woman’s deeply personal exploration ...

Of all the circles of women I’ve been lucky to join over the years, perhaps the most precious one was on the floor of a Black dance studio in Austin, TX. While our 3-year-old girls practiced ...

Ballet in the 1930s and ’40s was still regarded as a European art ... obvious prima ballerina. “She was so clearly American,” Alexopoulos said, at a time when the best dancers came from ...

to help take you from baby ballerina to full on prima. If possible, dancers with professional aspirations should begin ballet classes at an early age—usually between three and eight years old.

Copeland graced the Center for the Arts mainstage as the third speaker in UB’s ‘24-’25 Distinguished Speaker series, sharing ...

Ballet is more than an art — it also requires rigorous ... history to feature all female choreographers, and the dancers say ...

A creaking 30-foot-tall ballerina who also happens to be a clown ... the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer,” Borofsky writes. “Of course, this public ...

Renowned South African ballet dancer Angela Revie has ... the honorary position of Prima Ballerina, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the art of ballet, her exemplary career ...