Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...

Throughout history, African American dancers, choreographers and instructors (e.g. Kathrine Dunham, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey, Cab Calloway, and the Nicholas Brothers) have made major contributions ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by New York City Ballet invited 4,500 students to see the show. We hung out with third graders from Girls Prep Bronx and talked ballet. By Julia Jacobs ...

Dancer Nia Towe had been keeping a secret for months. Last week, Towe, who was born and raised in Chicago, settled in to watch an episode of reality television with her family and boyfriend. On-screen ...

Guan Yu from the Beijing Dance Academy gives a ballet class to rural girls in Duancun village in Hebei province. Provided to China Daily Every weekend over the past few months, Guan Yu and his wife ...

The Internet has reinforced do-it-yourself instincts in practically every conceivable area, especially education. But recent reports of young girls trying to learn ballet from online videos, bypassing ...