While there’s no “one way” to become a professional ballerina, many performers who dance for a living follow a typical trajectory. Keep reading to learn the steps (you are a dancer, after all) to help ...

For 50 years, the Makaroff family — Nikolai and Juanita and now their daughter Jeanette — have been our community's standard-bearers of classical ballet training, profoundly impacting the lives of ...

A new program at the Joffrey Ballet Academy of Dance aims to diversify job training for professional dancers on the rise. This fall, approximately 10 dancers will be the first cohort of contemporary ...

There is more than one way to teach and perform ballet. Some of the more popular curricula taught in the United States are: Ecole Française, or the French school, is considered to be the basis of all ...

American Ballet Theatre's National Training Curriculum (NTC) has announced a new subscription-based web portal enabling access to selected content from ABT's Teacher Training Intensives and its ...

When I signed my daughter up for ballet classes at 2-and-a-half, I thought dance would be fun for her. She was a girlie, princess-loving child, and tutus and twirling seemed right up her alley. OK, ...

Margaret Todd of Jackson recently was chosen to participate in the Summer Intensive Program at the School of Nashville Ballet in Tennessee. The program helps young dancers develop their ballet ...

Adored by her students, a 5-foot-2-inch dynamo instructor of classical ballet and Spanish dance, Miss Pepa Dodge never misses a day of work — even at 96 years old. “Her continued dedication to her art ...