She said she never saw herself as a great turner, or able to master some of the Black Swan’s tricky footwork. “It has every ...

ballet dancer Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés – those crowd-pleasing whiplash turns on one leg performed by Odile, the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés ...

The white swan and the black swan, both portrayed by the Kansas City Ballet’s Kaleena Burks, represent good and evil in “Swan ...

Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan ...

Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons ...

Each swan has an individuality that’s ... Lauren Anderson, the first Black principal dancer at Houston Ballet, had started performing classical roles in skin-toned tights in the early 1990s.

She said she never saw herself as a great turner, or able to master some of the Black Swan’s tricky footwork. “It has every single ballet step in the book,” Miller says of the iconic ballet.