Ballet training begins at the barre, but in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, a kitchen counter and the back of a couch has become a substitute for even America's most elite ballerinas. When the ...

Before joining the board of directors of A.V.A. Ballet Theatre, the resident ballet company of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, my knowledge of ballet would fit in a thimble. Three quarters ...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's a question many of us now smile fondly upon as we reminisce over our childhood dreams of being astronauts, vets, and firefighters (all at once, of ...

Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines" Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as ...

Within the intimate and dimly-lit Ailey Citigroup Theater, dancers emerged from the stage’s wings in cloth ballet shoes, pointe shoes, and a myriad of costumes, bringing the Columbia Ballet ...

When Alexandra Francois went to parties with lively music playing as a little girl, she couldn’t resist getting out of her chair and doing her thing. “People would just step aside” when Alexandra took ...

In the 2010 film “Black Swan,” Natalie Portman's character is a ballerina who is obsessed with perfection. She goes mad during a production of “Swan Lake” where she imagines, among other things, that ...