Performing on the tips of the toes is part of the mystique of a female ballerina but male dancers devoted to the pointe technique want to be taken more seriously “I was always attracted to pointe ...

In professional ballet, the female dancer often appears light and airy and seems to float lightly into the air without effort performing en pointe (on the tips of the toes). By contrast, the male ...

Ballet has always had a complicated relationship with gender. In the classical roles we watch on stage, men play princes and heartbreakers who leap high in the air and take up entire stages with large ...

Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...

Live with Kelly and Ryan is teaming up with American Ballet Theatre principal dancers to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Most Ballet Dancers En Pointe Simultaneously Kelly Ripa: talk ...

Before joining the board of directors of A.V.A. Ballet Theatre, the resident ballet company of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, my knowledge of ballet would fit in a thimble. Three quarters ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Ashton Edwards, an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, is part of a rising generation of gender nonconforming dancers questioning ballet’s rigid ...

Kelly Ripa overcame her nerves to balance en pointe for one minute with principle dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet More than 300 ballet dancers in New York have broken ...

Kelly Ripa helped organize hundreds of ballet dancers for a Guinness World Record attempt on Live with Kelly and Ryan. Kelly and 305 dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York Ballet, and more ...