"I began going to school with white kids for the first time, and my body became subject to discourse and scrutiny. " ...

the lone Black girl surrounded by affluent white girls. At the time, many ballet companies rejected Black dancers altogether. By age 15, Abarca would recall, “I’d become convinced that for a ...

Ducker’s Dance Card was a black-and-white piece, a ballroom ballet performed in black dresses and suits with tails. Set to Philadelphia composer (and Pulitzer Prize winner) Jennifer Higdon’s ...

ballet dancer Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés – those crowd-pleasing whiplash turns on one leg performed by Odile, the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés ...

Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black in ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’, choreographed by Cassa Pancho. Dancers: (L-R) Megan Chiu, Taraja Hudson, Elijah Peterkin, Helga Paris-Morales, Mikayla Isaacs ...

Dressed uniformly in black leotards, white tights and pointe shoes, the teenage ballerinas from the advanced class were rehearsing for the upcoming premiere of “The Firebird,” a production that ...

The Ballet last danced ... Hop the Third Reich into dance-marathon oblivion. Sixteen ponytailed women in white leotards prance and pony-step; five women in black leotards and five men in ...

On stage at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Leslie Cheek Theater, Richmond Ballet dancers became art themselves, moving in a manner both smooth and fluid, mimicking that of a brushstroke.