For Black Ballerinas, Painting Ballet Slippers Is a Tedious But Essential Ritual The practice of pancaking shoes and hand-dying tights has roots in the Dance Theatre of Harlem. By Karen Valby ...

Manon’s production was undoubtedly stunning, like an animate Degas painting on loan from London’s Royal Ballet. The San Francisco opening boasted the original costumes from the ballet’s ...

Diablo Ballet has performed several Saunders pieces before, but this is her first new work set by the company, a commission in honor of longtime Diablo supporter Mari Cyphers, who passed away in 2022.

Adored by her students, a 5-foot-2-inch dynamo instructor of classical ballet and Spanish dance, Miss Pepa Dodge never misses a day of work — even at 96 years old.

I enrolled in Foundations of Ballet 1 last fall to learn more about the artform I’d fallen hard for. What I discovered in the Foundations course is that grace and force have to be earned over ...