“Oh no, Daddy, it’s not funny. It’s ballet!” The young ballet student had just seen a recent, witty performance, by the Royal Ballet, of Les Biches in Portland, Ore., and was both mystified and ...

This post was updated March 12 at 8:59 p.m. With “Homecoming,” the American Contemporary Ballet takes audiences back to school by combining drill team choreography with 1980s nostalgia. “Homecoming” ...

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 ...

CounterPointe was born in 2012 from a desire to support ballet by women dancemakers working with the pointe shoe. “We wanted to make it a little bit easier for women to get their work seen and ...

Ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director Robert Garland talks about the founding and history of the globally ...