Ballet

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an...

Surveying the state of American ballet in a 1913 issue of Clure's Magazine, author Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in t...

Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-á-vis the ...

For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have i...

NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia,...

Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance t...

With his technique, Casper refers to the theme Vanitas that was often used in 17th-century painting: symbols that represent the transience of earth...

Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection? Sadler's Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Disciplined ...

Thalia Maras story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an ...

In her first health and fitness book, celebrated ballerina Misty Copeland shows you how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and h...