Visions of Sugar Plum Fairies may draw suburbanites into Chicago each year, but at least 2,400 dance patrons will have some of the same sightings in Elgin this weekend, where another version of “The ...

Get out your tights, stretch out those hammies, and head to the barre—November brings World Ballet Day… though there seems to ...

Doing a lot with a little, in the arts as in business, gets you far in the world. And when you finally begin attracting the recognition you deserve, you know exactly what to do with it. Ballet Nouveau ...

The battle between ousted principal dancer Kimberly Glasco and the National Ballet Company was perhaps the biggest Canadian dance story of the year. Certainly it generated more ink, more radio and TV ...

Barbara Gerbasi longed to study ballet when she was young, but her dreams of donning a tutu and pink satin shoes were at odds with her mother, who preferred she learn piano. It wasn't until she turned ...

When a group of 85 ballet enthusiasts and visionaries, led by the late Majorie Riggs, got together in 1966 to form what would later become known as Ballet Spartanburg, few could have imagined the ...

Faith Salie show us what goes into pointe shoes besides some very talented feet: In the world of ballet, Christmas means one thing: "The Nutcracker"! Stages across the country fill with twirling ...

When Ruthanna Boris began teaching ballet at the University of Washington in 1965, there was no dance department, no dance studio and no musical accompanist. Those of us who attended her classes on ...