As a child, many girls wanted to be a ballerina. Whether they played with Barbie in her tutu or asked their parents to get them classes, they loved the idea of it. The grace while dancing, the ...

If you’ve been watching Love Island USA clips, scrolling through TikTok, or watching dance videos, odds are you’ve seen this comment: “They are never beating those midnight ballerina allegations.” And ...

Ballet sustains in this lyrical homage emphasizing the early challenges that dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince (1995–2024) overcame on her path to the professional stage. As an orphaned child in Sierra ...

Fifteen years have passed since I hung up my pointe shoes, and still, Tchaikovsky scores, Balanchine choreography, and the beauty of a quick change in the wings of a theater occupy a good amount of my ...

On Wednesday, Misty Copeland will perform her final show as a professional ballerina after 25 years with American Ballet Theatre. The farewell performance at ABT’s Fall Gala also marks her return to ...

In an impoverished orphanage in Sierra Leone, she longed to dance ballet. After being adopted by American parents, her improbable dream came true. By Alex Traub Michaela DePrince, an acclaimed ...

Misty Copeland, the Missouri-born ballerina who’s become a forceful voice for diversity in ballet and achieved a celebrity that far transcends that rarified world, was named principal dancer at ...

A young girl who has spent her life in the mountains finally journeys to the big city to fulfill her life's dream of becoming a ballerina,. However, she soon discovers that achieving that dream is a ...