When Alexandra Francois went to parties with lively music playing as a little girl, she couldn’t resist getting out of her chair and doing her thing. “People would just step aside” when Alexandra took ...
On the third floor of Gerlinger Annex, Natalie Reyes and her nine other dancers leap and create smooth and dynamic movements across the floor with tutu skirts and alongside The Voice Of Spring Waltz ...
Olga Supphozova glides across the stage in pointe shoes and a feathered tutu, her arms extended in elegant lines of beauty and strength. But the piece is called “The Dying Swan” for a reason — pretty ...
Ballet evolves slowly, and that includes footwear. But a new shoe with sneaker technology is giving dancers support from the ...
It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Shakespeare. Boy meets girl. Girl falls in love with boy. Families start fighting. Soliloquies are delivered. Soft light breaks through yonder windows ...
The traditional pink shoes and tights break the visual line of the bodies of Black dancers. After 60-plus years, Robin Williams, a ballet dancer, recently experienced a first: performing in pointe ...
This post was updated March 12 at 8:59 p.m. With “Homecoming,” the American Contemporary Ballet takes audiences back to school by combining drill team choreography with 1980s nostalgia. “Homecoming” ...
'On Pointe Dance Festival' is the New York City dance festival presented by NEVILLE Dance Theatre on Sunday, June 8 & Sunday, June 15, 2025, at Martha Graham Studio Theater, that celebrates the ...