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 ...

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 ...

In 1832, ballerina Marie Taglioni followed her father's instructions to get up on the points of her toes to dance, in an effort to portray a floating, supernatural being. It ushered in a new era of ...

Olga Supphozova glides across the stage in pointe shoes and a feathered tutu, her arms extended in elegant lines of beauty and strength. But the piece is called “The Dying Swan” for a reason — pretty ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s 76th season of the Lyceum Series continues with a performance from the Hiplet Ballerinas, a 2021 “America’s Got Talent” contestant fusing classical ballet pointe ...

On the third floor of Gerlinger Annex, Natalie Reyes and her nine other dancers leap and create smooth and dynamic movements across the floor with tutu skirts and alongside The Voice Of Spring Waltz ...