NARBERTH, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Melinda Pendleton is the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, which her parents founded roughly 50 years ago. There, she knows the importance of not only ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — As a young Black girl who grew up on stage, Kayla Chambers-Reed always wanted to teach ballet to kids just like her. But the 14-year-old’s dream became reality this year ...

Johaar Mosaval, a South African ballet dancer who was blocked by apartheid-era racial laws from pursuing his ambitions, rose to become a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, and returned to ...

Sidra Bell is the first African American woman to have a work she created be performed by the New York City Ballet. The ballet is hosting a virtual season this year due to the pandemic. Bell named the ...

“SKIN + Saltwater” is Staycee Pearl’s contribution to the new show by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. It’s a world premiere for the veteran choreographer, and also another significant first: Pearl is the ...

The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

Since it was uploaded to Instagram in June, the video of Nigerian ballet dancer Anthony Mmesoma Madu dancing in the rain has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when our ...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) -- "This really is my home," said Benjamin Sterling Cannon. "The teachers who were here, they were all like my parents. And they gave me so much that I had to come back and ...

Maina Gielgud’s Giselle opened to a standing ovation on 13 November at the Baxter Theatre. Performed to a recording of the ...

Dance Theatre of Harlem’s ballet company will perform a “crowd-pleasing,” classical ballet-based program Feb. 4 at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. The New York-based company, which tours ...