ballet

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Dance as an Exploration of Love, Pain, and Performance

Caitlin Green

Watching the film felt like the motion-picture equivalent of flipping through an old photo album.

Photo: Kara Nepomuceno

Loose ribbons

Kara Nepomuceno

A “more socially just future” reaches beyond drastic changes in ballet’s foundations.

Photo: Emma Cohen

Dance Studio Life

Emma Cohen

Melissa Klapper’s new book offers a social history of ballet class in the United States.

Photo: RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Marie Geneviève Van Goethem, aka “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”

Carolyn Merritt

Like a sculptor aiming for a semblance of life, the author adjusts her sights beyond the facts, on Marie Van Goethem’s soul.

Photo: Lynn Brooks

Ballet: What is the Matter?

Jennifer Fisher's new book, a memoir-as-ethnographic study

Photo: Dayshona Johnson Productions

A Fight to Success: Interview with Chanel Holland, founder of Chocolate Ballerina Co.

Mohan Bell

People are usually interested in the outcome of the struggle. I am exposing the struggle.

Photo: Joseph V Labolito

The Gridlock of HUMAN

Miryam Coppersmith

Gibson takes the question "What is ballet in the 21st century" back to form.

Photo: CJ Harris

Straight Outta’ Philly: Illuminated, Dancing

Sara Graybeal

A sweaty, blissful finale brings home the power of Hip-Hop as a uniting force.

MOBBallet: Website Showcases Black Ballet History

Ellen Chenoweth

Theresa Ruth Howard believes that "even in the dance community itself, we have a kind of collective amnesia."