At Studio A in Los Angeles, Diane Kravif, 75, stands at the barre with pin-straight posture. Pink slippers cover her feet, and her silver bob is pushed back with a headband. Watching her tendu and ...

Running With Théoden is a special Observer interview series featuring runs with influential Charlotteans. This week: Dancer ...

Sophie Williams’ decade-long dance career has taken her across the globe, from the English National Ballet in London to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Texas Ballet Theater, where she’s currently ...

A melodic piano fills the room. Synchronous tapping echoes off the walls. Pointe shoes shuffle as dancers glide across the hard floor. These are the all too familiar sounds that make up the Ballet ...

As the world’s population ages, exercise advice targeting older adults has become more popular. Social dance, specifically, has been considered a good exercise for those of increasing age because it ...

Paul Gibson works with dancers in the advanced class at the Performing Arts School of Central Pennsylvania in State College. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski For Altoona native Paul Gibson, a career ...

So much of the art world orbits around questions of value, not only in terms of appraisals and price tags, but also: What is worthy of your time in These Times, as well as your energy, your attention, ...

A recent research study from Switzerland explored how ballet dancers manage to make so many turns in a row. They discovered that not only does it help them to try to keep their head still and forward ...