The company will perform the contemporary choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s “Red Carpet” in California and New York.

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 ...

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 ...

As a professional dancer, Erin Carpenter was required to wear flesh-colored tights and undergarments to both rehearsals and performances. There was just one problem — those “flesh colored” tights didn ...

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At Pico and La Cienega lies a glass door. As you enter, the smell of sweat intermingles with the tittering of classical piano music. In the waiting room, a smattering of people are adorned in every ...

Jasmine Snead used to dye her tights in what she calls "Frankenstein type of experiments." As a figure skater for over two decades, she would use tea or, later on, fabric dye, because companies just ...

Victoria Ballet Theatre (VBT) invites the community to participate in its annual open auditions for “The Nutcracker,” a ...

“When I first decided to form a ballet company, Mother said: ‘Dear, why don’t you just see a psychiatrist?’ I told her it would be cheaper to form a ballet company.” So Rebekah Harkness went ahead, ...