When we think of ballet, we often imagine lithe, lean, long-limbed ballerinas gracefully and effortlessly performing demanding technical feats. However, maintaining a body that fulfills this aesthetic ...

As with Ballet Preljocaj’s previous productions we’ve seen in town, Gravity is once again a masterclass in composition and ...

Christopher Wheeldon has a guilty secret. “I grew up listening to Phantom of the Opera,” he says. “As an 11-year-old, those big blockbuster musicals were everything. Seeing Starlight Express: it was ...

There is a ballet class that takes place in the East Village of New York most Mondays at 10:45 a.m. It has all the markings of a makeshift studio: an abandoned stage, portable barres, two small ...

At Studio A in Los Angeles, Diane Kravif, 75, stands at the barre with pin-straight posture. Pink slippers cover her feet, and her silver bob is pushed back with a headband. Watching her tendu and ...

Never before have humans lived such a disembodied existence. Many of us spend our days hunched over the computer, ignoring our body until our limbs go numb. As of 2011, only about 20 percent of ...

The ballet look is in vogue. “Balletcore” — think tulle, leggings, leg warmers etc. — can be seen on runways with "freaky tutus" and in department stores with Miu Miu’s popular $1,000 flats, on TikTok ...

The Body Undone explores the raw, human side of movement. Precision meets vulnerability, dance becoming a story of transformation.

The idealized look in the 1980s was muscular and toned (with leg warmers). That morphed into the skeletal “heroin chic” of the ’90s. More recently, a curvier physique with a big buttocks has dominated ...