says the New York City Ballet’s Choreographer George Balanchine ... an elastically lyric solo by Edward Villella as Oberon, a wonderfully comic and closely knit dialogue of movement between ...

If possible, dancers with professional aspirations should begin ballet classes at an early age—usually between three and eight years old. It is also important that they (or rather, their parents ...

“When people think about ballet dancers, they only see what they see on stage – pretty and elegant,” she says. “But we are human beings, and I thought it’d be interesting to show what we ...

When she is not doing homework, she trains 20 hours a week at Vitacca Ballet & School For Dance in Houston. "My favorite part of dancing is being on stage, the stage is my favorite place," Daniels ...

Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing. Hundreds of young ballet dancers from the Northeast spent the past ...

Renowned South African ballet dancer Angela Revie has the same ambition as other people who’ve found success. On Sunday, Director of Mzansi Ballet, Dirk Badenhorst, conferred upon Revie the ...

AN EX-PROFESSIONAL ballet dancer who had to rethink her career is now training to become a podiatrist at Health Sciences University, Bournemouth. After considering physiotherapy courses as her ...

Originally from Barnsley, Tala Lee-Turton is a graduate of the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She successfully brought her ‘Dance in the Gardens’ performance, sponsored by Graysons, ...

He’s in demand and once again taking center stage as a freelance ballet dancer in various performances. With his natural-born body flexibility and hard work since childhood, the 167-centimeter ...

Her dreams of establishing a career en pointe did not last long. “I was never really suited to be a ballet dancer,” she said in a 1977 interview with The New York Times. “But I had a gift fo ...