As part of their ongoing mission to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community, Nashville Ballet is excited to announce that they will be transitioning each of their artists into dancer ...

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 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Echappe, jete, plie are not words used commonly in most classrooms, and certainly not classrooms occupied by a handful of teenage boys. But Raul Martinez’s ballet studio, and his ...

“These” were supports – elastic contraptions designed to hoist the family jewels out of harm’s way as the male dancer plies, jettes, ­pirouettes and attempts other potentially nut-cracking manoeuvres.

The dress code for the New York Academy of Ballet outlines the requirement for students to wear salmon-coloured tights with pink ballet slippers to match. While it may be seen as traditional for ...