YOKOHAMA (JAPAN) - The dancers' futuristic headgear glints under the lights at a top ballet show, but just two months ago their plastic costumes were sticky bottles tossed into a Tokyo recycling bin. ...

In dance, performers speak through carefully crafted movements. Whether on a stage in Japan or abroad, the art form conveys a wealth of emotions — joy, longing, remorse — without dialogue and can ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial homogeneity some traditions are ...

Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades. “I ...

Jemima says there needs to be greater representation in ballet uniform Jemima has always loved ballet but was left feeling excluded over the lack of different skin tone uniform options available to ...