Building a top-notch ballet company should not be as easy as the Aspen Ballet Company has made it seem. It should be especially difficult to create that dance company in a small town, out of a dance ...

"To dance well, you have to be self-centered and focused on yourself," says Vanessa Zahorian, 32, a dancer in the San Francisco Ballet since 1997. Since childhood in rural Pennsylvania, dancing has ...

Tracy Somani and her classmates exercise toe extensions in a Philadelphia Ballet class for adults who have never danced ballet before. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

NEW YORK — Theater does not consist of words alone. And much of what can be sublime in theater goes beyond words. It is true that all the great choreographers are also among the great makers of ...

When Medill sophomore Mila Brandson arrived at Northwestern her freshman year, she knew she wanted to join a dance group. Her mother was a former professional dancer and Brandson herself practiced ...