While there’s no “one way” to become a professional ballerina, many performers who dance for a living follow a typical trajectory. Keep reading to learn the steps (you are a dancer, after all) to help ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2019, Alexandra Basmagy, then a corps de ballet dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the ...

Just a year after giving birth to her first child, Ballet West principal artist Jenna Rae Herrera is back in the spotlight performing almost every night in the holiday classic ...

Watch Gabriela Rodriguez dance at New Ballet in San Jose. Gabriela Rodriguez first glimpsed the magic of ballet in the third grade. The 7-year-old didn’t know a pirouette from a puppet when she first ...

Members of the Dayton Ballet will give kids and their families an insider’s look at dance with its leaps, spins, lifts, costumes and make-up as “Who Wants to be a Dancer?” inspires everyone’s inner ...

Paul Gibson works with dancers in the advanced class at the Performing Arts School of Central Pennsylvania in State College. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski For Altoona native Paul Gibson, a career ...

As a lifelong ballet dancer, I have always had a strong core and legs. Then, during the pandemic, when studios closed, I needed a way to maintain my strength and flexibility. I implemented a few ...

At this time last year, Nicholas Patterson could barely walk from chemotherapy. Now he is dancing with the Sugar Plum Fairy.

In 2019, when film director Alex Ramsey told Garen Scribner that he'd love to make a short documentary about a dancer recovering from injury, the former San Francisco Ballet soloist turned him down.