All the performing arts have taken a hammering, and heaven knows this isn’t a competition, but dance, and ballet especially, is a case apart. The technique that took decades to acquire needs constant ...

Sophie Williams’ decade-long dance career has taken her across the globe, from the English National Ballet in London to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Texas Ballet Theater, where she’s currently ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Shannon Rugani, a previous South Lake Tahoe resident, composed a full-length score based on Marilyn Monroe’s life for a ballet production with an all-female team, notably ...

“The numbers are shocking,” says Elizabeth Yntema, founder and president of the Chicago-based Dance Data Project. She’s talking about the lack of female choreographers in America’s ballet companies.

PARKERSBURG – People came from near and far to listen to Nina Danilova teach classical ballet this week in Parkersburg. Danilova, a native of Russia who is now a professor at the North Carolina School ...

Balanchine’s 1947 ballet is pressured and punchy, but the rest of this mixed programme shrinks to caricature and uneven pastiche In Theme and Variations, Balanchine took the lexicon of 19th-century ...

Want to see some of Seattle’s best dancers in action? Check out two dance programs at Bumbershoot this weekend. First up is a revival of Mark Haim’s acclaimed 1997 “Goldberg Variations” (1:30 p.m., ...

Rosella Hightower was an exceptional ballerina who not only had a rare artistic talent, but also lived a rare life. Born on 10 January, 1920 in Ardmore,Oklahoma, she was proud of her Choctaw identity, ...