Ballerina Ashley Bouder Takes On Gender Inequality One Pirouette At A Time
On stage, Ashley Bouder and Sara Mearns were dancing separately, but together.
Look at This Beautiful Pussy Twirling in the Air
What can your pussy do?
Ruin Your Feet and Watch This Perfect Center Stage: On Point Trailer
Get ready for like six prolonged close-ups of pointe shoes and bleeding feet, because the dance gods have blessed us with another Center Stage (which, let’s be real, aggressively holds up in 2016).
This NYC Dance Troupe is Turning Classic Ballet Into Queer Activism
The world of classic ballet, which runs on a set of rigid strictures, encourages and affirms an almost unattainable, incredibly unhealthy body ideal, and has been one of the last artistic fields to racially diversify, isn’t exactly what you’d think of as a safe haven for socially-conscious dancers looking to make…
Watch 51 Black Dancers Slay Hard With Debbie Allen at White House Performance
First Lady and lover of dance Michelle Obama invited the legend Debbie Allen and a phenomenal group of 51 black dancers to perform at the White House for Black History Month.
Australian Teen Wants to Be the First Hijab-Wearing Ballerina
In Sydney, Australia, a young girl named Stephanie Kurlow plans to become the world’s first ballerina in a hijab—despite haters, both within and outside the Muslim community, who say that Muslims shouldn’t dance.
Misty Copeland Is Getting a Town Square Named After Her for Christmas
Misty Copeland, the first black principal ballerina for the American Ballet Theater, is getting her own intersection in her hometown of San Pedro, California next month. Happy early holidays!
Flesh and Bone Is Another Starz Show About Dark, Complex Women
For a certain generation, it might be difficult to watch Starz’s Flesh and Bone without thinking of the 2000 film Center Stage. Yet the former quickly makes it very clear that this is not a fun, light-hearted romp where the underdog rises through the ranks, but a rough journey filled with abuse, drug use and potential…
Misty Copeland: 'I Wanted to Open the Dialogue About Race'
Misty Copeland made history this week as the first black woman to be named principle dancer at the American Ballet Theater. In a new interview, Copeland says, “This has all become more than I ever imagined.”
Misty Copeland Is American Ballet Theater's First Black Principal Dancer
Misty Copeland has been promoted to principal dancer by the American Ballet Theater, becoming the company’s first black female principal in its 75-year history. Hell yes.
Starz's New Ballet Drama Is Sex, Drugs, and Cabriole
Here’s your first look at Flesh and Bone, Starz’s upcoming ballet school drama from Breaking Bad writer/executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett. The trailer includes a flash of Sascha Redetsky (of Center Stage fame), chair throwing, and hyper-charged (and entirely cheesy) lines like, “I can’t do anything with some…
Misadventures at Adult Beginner Drop-In Ballet
I'm not a real ballerina, and I'm not a little girl, so I'd walked by the ballet studio for years without ever thinking about taking a class. Even while I was reading about the history of dance and watching YouTube videos of Sylvie Guillem, I scarcely examined the wall of "not for me" I'd built around the concept. It…
New Video Set to Hozier Is a Sexy Celebration of Man Spanx
This weekend, amid Andrew Hozier-Byrne taking the Grammy audience to church and conjuring witchcraft with Annie Lennox, a new "Take Me To Church" video staring dancer Sergei Polunin appeared online. The clip, directed by David LaChapelle, centers on a sensual routine by Polunin and it is very... sexy?
Watch This Woman Make a Beautiful, Intricate Tutu
Ever wondered how those glorious ballet tutus are produced? Watch with your own eyes as one "pancake"-style creation takes shape.
Misty Copeland on Being Black in Ballet: 'People Are Narrow Minded'
The amazing Misty Copeland recently went on NPR Morning Edition, where she discussed her experiences being the American Ballet Theatre's first black soloist in two decades.
Ballet Truthers Are Coming for this Free People Ad
To my untrained eye - sure, this woman could pass as if she's been ballet dancing since she was three. I would fixate more on the shabby-chic clothes that the advertisement is shilling.
Start Your New Year With Vivienne Westwood Tutus and Julie Andrews
Most of us will be waking up with a hangover on New Year's Day. But here's one way to class up time spent prostrate on the couch: A concert heavy on the Strauss, hosted by your TV nana Julie Andrews and complete with ballet interlude featuring costumes designed by Vivienne Westwood.
Center Stage fans will leap with excitement about AOL's new web series about the New York City Ballet, narrated and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. It's all there: the dance, the drama, the toe shoes. Except Zoe Saldana. She's not there.
British Show Big Ballet Aims to Encourage Bigger Girls to Keep Dancing
A former dancer for the Royal Ballet is launching a British TV series called Big Ballet aimed at encouraging larger dancers, which is something you just don’t hear enough of (unless you’re re-watching the now-defunct Bunheads, unwilling to accept ABC Family’s capricious decision-making process).
Greta Gerwig on the Cultish Tendencies of Ballet Class
When future humans look back at the era of gender normative child-rearing, when parents watched their girls stumble around a dance studio and watched their boys try to decapitate a tee-ball stand, they’ll probably draw misguided conclusions, conclusions distorted by a preponderance of archived Dance Moms clips. “Wow,…
