Mildred "Millie" Cruzat became a dancer at age 18, and never really stopped. Her granddaughter said she taught her not to ...

“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and ...

From the time my mom saw me attempting some kind of pirouette at about 5 or 6, I knew I wanted to be a professional ballerina. My first teacher's feedback: "Melissa needs a more serious class." From ...

As a teenager, ballet was just one of my extracurriculars, a hobby alongside piano and watercoloring. But as it turns out, ballet demanded more from me than tickling the ivory. Six days a week, we met ...

It was 2016 and I had asked for warm-up boots for Christmas. The puffy boots, which looked like trash bags, insulated the feet before rehearsals and were wildly popular at my ballet studio. After ...

When I signed my daughter up for ballet classes at 2-and-a-half, I thought dance would be fun for her. She was a girlie, princess-loving child, and tutus and twirling seemed right up her alley. OK, ...

In an exclusive essay, 'Maya & Natasha' author Elyse Durham breaks down how learning ballet as an adult brought her body and mind back into harmony I don’t know a single woman who has an uncomplicated ...