ballet

Book Review: A Magic Carpet Ride Through Ballet’s History of Orientalism

Catja Christensen

Banishing Orientalism is an intellectually stimulating, essential read.

Still image from Downstage

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."