World Ballet Company adapted "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous tale of greed and corruption in the Roaring ...

The annual festival, popular for its take-a-chance-priced tickets, opened with a show featuring work by Jamar Roberts, the ...

Discover how one writer is healing her relationship to her body and reconnecting with the joy of dance in a new anti-perfection ballet class. I was nervous entering my first ballet class in more than ...

If you’ve ever taken a dance class, you know that it keeps your body and mind challenged, disciplined, focused, and energized. No matter if you’re doing time steps in tap shoes or pliés at the ballet ...

The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has added three dancers to the Joffrey roster for the 2025-26 season. Learn more about the new dancers here!

Sometimes you can find new interests in old places. For me, it was discovering a love of ballet more than 15 years after I first started training. Let me explain. I took ballet lessons from second ...

Cardio, schmardio. For the ultimate body and mind workout, some harried adults are pirouetting back in time — and signing themselves up for ballet class. Whether it’s curious first-timers looking to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. If there is one occupation in which it seems women should have an ...

In some ways, Christian Bale’s childhood activities mirror that of Billy Elliot, the popular character who overcomes being ridiculed for being a male ballet dancer. “Christian was the only boy in the ...

Students practice in an upper-level class at Victoria Ballet and Art in Palo Alto on Jan. 27, 2023. Photo by Grace Doerfler. Victoria Lee remembers seeing ballet dancers for the first time as a child ...