Deborah Ory discovered dance photography when she could no longer be a dancer herself. While she was a dance major at the University of Michigan, Ory suffered a career-ending stress fracture in one ...

George Balanchine studied at Russia’s Imperial School of Ballet but left in 1925 to join Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. After Diaghilev’s death, Balanchine co-founded Les Ballets, where ...

I remember, long ago, a dance teacher talking about jumping. “Just go up there and stay there,” she would say, to those trying to overthink the movement. “That’s all.” Documentarian Frederick Wiseman, ...

Donors contribute to buy painting of Tamara Karsavina, co-founder of the London ballet school A rare and valuable portrait of the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova’s great rival and one ...

When did you first learn ballet? Ballet dancer Merritt A. Moore ’10-’11 is a physics concentrator affiliated with Currier House, though she currently lives off campus. In 2008, she took a year off to ...

The great Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev does not come across as particularly likable in "The White Crow ," Ralph Fiennes' elegant biopic of his early years. Nureyev is arrogant, cruel, entitled, ...

In “Ballet 422,” rising choreographer Justin Peck has only two months to mount a major production on one of Manhattan’s most formidable stages, but this appealing wunderkind is so composed that he ...

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The Dance Gallery School of Dance Arts will mark its 42nd anniversary with a major production, "Portrait," June 3 and 4 at The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences. The Dance Gallery will ...

Credit: Choreographer Diana Movius. Photograph by Brandon Dozier of Cinema Black. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Diana Movius as the museum’s next choreographer-in-residence ...