When Christopher Bruce mentioned he was thinking about creating a ballet to the music of the Rolling Stones, the initial reaction wasn't what he expected. "I had been asked by Gradimir Pankov, who was ...

Desmond Richardson is dancing alone on stage to the poems by Maya Angelou, in song. Richardson, the the first principal African American dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), makes full use ...

Tulsa Ballet definitely has something to crow about with "Paint It Black," which opened its two-weekend run Friday at the Lorton Performance Center. The three ballets included two Oklahoma premieres — ...

Ballet performances are a mesmerizing spectacle on their own, but when the dancers are covered in body paint it's a whole other story. That's just what the audience was treated to last month at the ...

Beth Brodie encouraged members of the Aiken Civic Ballet’s company and junior company to “wing it and do whatever you want to” at Van Gogh To Go in downtown Aiken on Saturday. The nearly 30 girls were ...

Grand Rapids Ballet dancers, from right, Kyohei Yoshida, Steven Houser, Megan DeMuro and Hannah Wilcox perform choreographer Thomas Dancy's' "And Etudes" Thursday, April 11, 2013 during dress ...

Ingrid Silva used to paint her ballet slippers. The 33-year-old dancer was born in Brazil but now performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City and explained that she used to use liquid ...

What if you could paint with your shoes? Electronic Traces is a pair ballet pointe shoes that sends a dancer's movements to a nearby smartphone. Using Lilypad Arduinos, they record pressure and ...

The 13 cultural groups that belong to the Arts United Fund of Central Florida just got the news they had been expecting since last spring’s not-so- successful fund drive: Arts United, which runs an ...