Over the past couple years there has been a ballet flat renaissance, which I for one have embraced whole heartedly. This has extended far beyond the black ballerinas that Kate Moss lived in in the ...
For as long as ballet has existed, it has been an art form that prizes uniformity. For just as long, the tights and pointe shoes that have given ballet dancers that uniformity — to achieve the ...
From Nov. 8 to 9, Princeton University Ballet filled Frist Theater with color in their show “chroma.” The program describes the performance as the “purity of color” and “freedom from white or gray,” ...
The holiday tradition of Ballet Quad Cities’ “The Nutcracker” this weekend features guest dancers from Quad Cities Ballet Folklorico (QCBF). After collaborating for the first time in June, the two ...
Tumble down the rabbit hole and join North Star Ballet for an evening of magic during “Alice in Wonderland” on Saturday and Sunday. “It’s a very happy ballet, and it’s very colorful. It’s lighthearted ...
Diamonds to Degnan’s Ballet Center for staging the annual local production of The Nutcracker ballet, presented this Saturday (7:30 p.m.) and Sunday (2 p.m.) at Wilkes University’s Dorothy Dickson ...
Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades. “I ...