The Atlantic

See This Kids Ballet Documentary While You Can

While The Avengers raged record-breakingly at the box office this weekend, another band of plucky folks were performing their own superhuman feats in a couple of art-house theaters in New York and Los ...
Orlando Sentinel

Go behind the scenes of Orlando Ballet’s multimillion-dollar ‘Nutcracker’ in holiday TV special

In a first-of-its-kind for Orlando Ballet, a new documentary takes viewers behind the scenes of one of its productions: The $3.6 million “Nutcracker” that debuted to rave reviews last year. And now ...
WUNC

Sierra Leonean American ballerina Michaela DePrince has died at 29

In 2012, a teenage dancer captivated audiences in the ballet documentary "First Position." It was Michaela Mabinty DePrince. She was from war-torn Sierra Leone, and she went on to dance professionally ...
KSL

Resisting with art: Documentary shares how Ukrainians are preserving culture through ballet

PROVO — A Provo native is helping to highlight Ukrainians' fight for freedom through a documentary about ballet dancers who are preserving art and culture during war. "Ballet, and art in general, ...
WUNC

Pioneering ballerina Michaela DePrince dies at 29

Ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, an inspirational and pioneering figure in the dance world, has died at age 29 of undisclosed causes. Her death was announced via her Instagram by a spokesperson on ...