Hugo Marchand, an étoile at Paris Opera Ballet, brings his intensity and some high-wattage friends to New York City Center’s ...

While most professional dancers begin training at age seven or eight, Luiz Silva had never heard of ballet until age 15. Silva's meteoric journey from his first dance class to the ranks of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference. Olivia Book, who is from Grimsby, Ontario, on the shore of Lake ...

Camryne Bryce Quinn is a classically-trained Canadian American contemporary and commercial dance artist based in New York City. Since graduating from the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School in 2025, ...

Emma Andres (pictured) is a professional ballet dancer and contemporary/classical ballet choreographer who also has experience working in the techniques of jazz, contemporary, and modern. She is ...

In the ballet world, Reece Clarke is royalty — and it seems the whole world is falling for him. The principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London has risen quickly through the ranks. He’s ...

Emily Coates with Derek Lucci. Photo courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Observer spoke with Coates to discuss her work in process, some favorite archival discoveries and Balanchine’s ...

Remi Wörtmeyer has big dreams for Columbus. And as he begins his first season as artistic director of BalletMet, he says the power of collaboration will help make those dreams come true. “For me it’s ...

Sergeant Oleksandr Dushakov, a ballet dancer, is fighting against the Russian invasion. He says training and his feel for the forest are helping him survive. He says his experience as a dancer has ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

It started sixty years ago with a ragtag troupe of dancers performing in the streets, long before site-specific was a thing. Back then, Twyla Tharp Dance was just “a bunch of broads doing God’s work,” ...