Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...

City Gospel Mission's Princesses Ballet program offers free ballet lessons to hundreds of young dancers from low-income families CINCINNATI — A group of under-resourced girls will debut an original ...

Every year, young El Paso ballerinas get both excited and nervous about auditioning for the national touring company of the "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet." For the ballerinas, it's an ...

When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian was researching ballet classes for her daughter, she noticed a pattern. The majority of students and instructors at the ballet studios she found were white. She didn’t ...

Rochester Hills International Academy Okma student Nily Samara founded a nonprofit to share her love of ballet. The organization has worldwide reach and has given more than $9,000 worth of apparel and ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing. More than 400 hundred young ballet dancers from the Northeast gathered in Massachusetts with the hopes of winning a ...

When Medill sophomore Mila Brandson arrived at Northwestern her freshman year, she knew she wanted to join a dance group. Her mother was a former professional dancer and Brandson herself practiced ...

(WSVN) - Who says learning ballet is just for kids? An adult ballet class is giving women a second chance to dance. Heather Walker shows us in this 7 Spotlight. For many young dancers, ballet dreams ...