Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...

Dance and fitness trainer Kaley Hatfield shows us how to do ballet barre at home in Yahoo Life’s fitness series, “Take 5.” If you don’t have a barre, no problem. All you need is a chair for stability.

Tracy Somani and her classmates exercise toe extensions in a Philadelphia Ballet class for adults who have never danced ballet before. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

Ballerinas stir in the early afternoon light that shines through a fountain and into the studio. A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper. The dance is not there yet, but ...

Atlanta Ballet dancers Emily Carrico and Sergio Masero understand the exhaustion that comes from balancing parenthood with high-profile ballet careers. In the weeks before the February 2024 premiere ...

The ballerina, who rose from the slums of Rio to the world stage, wants to change the way we think ballerinas should look Brazilian dancer Ingrid Silva knows she doesn't look like your so-called ...

"Studies have shown that it is so therapeutic for men to take any form of dance," notes Zoe Saldaña, who hopes to interest her three sons in ballet. "I'm not going to give up." Zoe Saldaña is best ...

Olivia Bell is an alum and mentor for Brown Girls Do Ballet who says her mentors and the community she developed through the program helped in her journey from growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ...