The way that ballet dancer Ashton Edwards leaps through the air is pure art. The fact that he does it in pointe shoes is a rare feat. Ballet traditionally has very divided roles for men and women.

Julian Duque was taking classes at a small dance studio in Georgia and dreaming of becoming a world-class ballet dancer when one of his teachers, impressed by his potential, made a suggestion.

It comes from San Francisco Public TV station KQED. A young dancer shows us how persistence and talent landed her a position on one of the world's most prestigious stages.

Most Western-made biopics framed by flight from totalitarian countries to the United States -- of which the enjoyably sentimental Mao's Last Dancer is one -- come across as hymns to American ...

Ivenko, a slender, classically trained Ukrainian dancer with a mile-wide smile, explained how this fairy tale happened. “I ignored this first email that came about a casting search for a new ...

Fall River dancer David Grannum is back for his junior year at B.M.C. Durfee High School, but he’s hoping to make the move to the Patel Conservatory in Tampa, Florida, next month. But first ...

LI CUNXIN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, QUEENSLAND BALLET: Hi, I’m Li Cunxin, artistic director of the Queensland Ballet, but perhaps better known as Mao’s Last Dancer. Tonight’s story is about two ...