Fernanda Castillo, a native of Guatemala, performs in "The Dying Swan" in 2019. Her ballet career took her to the United States, Europe and Russia before she changed course and became a student at ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — More than a dozen men and women sit in chairs spread in front of a stage in a bright room. Many are chattering. Others sit quietly. Then ballet instructor Vanessa Woods’ voice cuts ...

RZA’s 36 Chambers of Shaolin and A Ballet Through Mud shows are part of the Colorado Symphony’s Imagination Artist Series. RZA has teamed with the Colorado Symphony for his first ballet, which debuts ...

On Tuesday, March 10, after my final plié, my weekly ballet class ended with a quick sanitization session. My instructor Anastasia doled out wipes from a Lysol cylinder so that my fellow students and ...

I mused in my admissions essay for Barrett, the Honors College about the lessons dancing ballet taught me. That essay was supposed to be a testament to my character, but now it seems like a eulogy for ...

As a lot of young kids did, I took ballet classes from my toddler years until I graduated college with a degree in dance (focusing mostly on contemporary dance). From ages 15-21 I also taught ballet ...

It started, as things often do, in a group chat. We were unpacking our anxieties du jour—dead-end job hunts, relationship strife, the generic existential dread of the year 2018—when our friend Han ...

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 ...