Lavallade started her 70-year career in Los Angeles and soon became known for her gravitational pull while performing.

A twist on the classic ballet, 'The 'Ebony Nutcracker' is opening for a third year in Columbus and celebrates Black culture.

Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been through a lot of ups and downs since it was founded six years ago, but a consistent thread has been director John Welker’s commitment to creating new narrative ...

Slip past the Westside Cultural Arts Center’s colorful facade, into its dim-lit parking garage and through its interior to the banging sound of workmen installing an HVAC system. Against one wall, ...

The American Dance Festival announced the lineup for its 2009 season at the end of last week. Dance cognoscenti had braced for the worst, given warnings earlier in the year about financial reversals ...

Ballet, the basis for all of Western theatrical dance, is a theatrical performance, using elements from a rich tapestry of traditional movements. Most ballets consist of dancing and music only, ...

Dance has always been more than movement. It’s rebellion. It’s storytelling. It’s innovation wrapped in rhythm and grace. Throughout history, certain dancers haven’t just mastered their craft. They’ve ...

MIAMI BEACH — Miami City Ballet’s second program, “Modern Masters,” opens Feb. 17 at the Kravis Center with a mixed-repertory bill that both reveres tradition and forges anew. The evening is anchored ...

Executive and artistic director Christine Cox at the BalletX groundbreaking. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) The go-to place for those in Philadelphia’s construction trade — along the Washington Avenue corridor ...

WE LAY ON our backs on the wood floor, moving our arms and legs the way you would make an angel in the snow, but this was the most specific angel I had ever made. I listened to teacher Bryon Carr, at ...

For a short while, the French-made film Polina toes the line of traditional ballet narrative: a heroine's journey from exceptional promise through bundled hurdles, all the way to the triumph of the ...

Wednesday on the NewsHour: Trey McIntyre Project Finds a Dance Partner in Boise More from Jeffrey Brown's profile of choreographer Trey McIntyre. Watch more of the interview with Judith Jamison, ...