The Hiplet ballerinas are a performance group designed to make ballet accessible to everyone - fusing classical pointe technique with hip-hop. Joining us now with more is artistic director Homer ...

An assembly of excited audience members shift anxiously in their seats. The buzz of light-hearted banter matches the racing heart beats of those behind the curtain. Show time. The lights dim, and a ...

Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...

Ballet could be called the art of gracefully defying gravity. Alighting on their toes, ballerinas seem to flout the earthbound pull to which the rest of us are subject. And no time is that more ...

Performing on the tips of the toes is part of the mystique of a female ballerina but male dancers devoted to the pointe technique want to be taken more seriously “I was always attracted to pointe ...

Toward the latter part of his life George Balanchine talked about creating a dictionary of his technique a visual reference for the students of ballet The George Balanchine Foundation has helped to ...