This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Every little girl likes to go to ballet class dressed in pink tights and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial homogeneity some traditions are ...

"Is this the men's class?" a male dancer asks with a smirk. "Because I'm not sure I'm man enough." He is tall and, like most of the 25 or so other San Francisco Ballet dancers stretching and prancing ...

Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades. “I ...

Despite the success of dancers such as Misty Copeland and Michaela DePrince, the ballet world is still inherently white. For decades, dancers of colour have had no choice but to wear pale pink or ...

If your notion of ballet is confined to images of ethereal women in white tutus on their tippy toes, Hope Muir has news for you. In announcing details of the National Ballet of Canada’s 2025-2026 ...