New York City Ballet’s Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon and Miriam Miller talk about the huge challenge of Swan Lakes’ White and ...

Chika Kisada is mad. The designer, a former ballet dancer who references the dance form in her tulle-accented womenswear, ...

Thirty years for a ballet company can feel both short and long. While it’s brief compared to centuries of ballet tradition, it’s also a significant period ...

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.

The Swan Lake ballet was first staged in Moscow, Russia, nearly 150 years ago, yet the love story remains a classic today.

the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés today — save them for tonight,” directed Phelan’s coach at New York City Ballet, Kathleen Tracey. Dancer and coach agreed: preserving Phelan’s precious leg muscles ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter ... enabling Siegfried to dance his contrition and Odette her forgiveness.

At its heart, Swan Lake has always ... version), Kain offers a ballet less interested in uncomplicated beauty and more invested in truth – the truths of her dancers’ bodies, for one, and ...