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A retired ballet dancer and choreographer, Edwaard Liang will be the first person of color to lead the company when he arrives next spring.

The performing arts sector is still on somewhat unstable footing post-pandemic. Louisville Ballet is one company that's been open about its experience.

When The Bright Stream premiered at the Bolshoi in 1935, the ballet—which is set on a collective farm and features such characters as a man in a dog suit and a parade of vegetables—was denounced in Pravda as frivolous and ironic. Its composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, lost much of his work, and its librettist, Adrian Piotrovsky, was shot.When the young choreographer Alexei Ratmansky brought his revival of The Bright Stream to New York in 2005, it made him the talk of the town. A progra...

Collage Dance – recently named one of the 50 largest ballet companies in the nation by Dance Data Project, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne-Carolyn Bird as its new Development Director.

After nine years dancing in D.C., the Cuban ballet dancer Gian Carlo Perez has followed Julie Kent to Texas for a bigger stage.

Intriguing shows by artists Celia Álvarez Muñoz and Griselda Rosas at MCASD. Plus, vogueing as an act of resistance — in our weekly arts newsletter.

A former dancer reckons with the rigors and ordeals of life in ballet.

At the helm of the San Francisco dance company, Amy Seiwert and Celia Fushille forge an equitable future for female choreographers.

Great efforts have been made to close the gender pay gap. But not all fields of work are created equally.