Desmond Richardson is dancing alone on stage to the poems by Maya Angelou, in song. Richardson, the the first principal African American dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), makes full use ...

Ballet performances are a mesmerizing spectacle on their own, but when the dancers are covered in body paint it's a whole other story. That's just what the audience was treated to last month at the ...

Tulsa Ballet definitely has something to crow about with "Paint It Black," which opened its two-weekend run Friday at the Lorton Performance Center.

Ingrid Silva used to paint her ballet slippers. The 33-year-old dancer was born in Brazil but now performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City and explained that she used to use liquid ...

Good-bye pink tutu, hello day-glo body paint. Ballet gets a faddish make-over with techno-fantasy production Rave, an ecstatic, hypnotic fusion of catwalk posturing, break dancing, kung fu fighting ...

Ballet is an exquisite, ephemeral expression. A dancer’s delicate footwork vanishes into thin air as quickly as it’s created, but it doesn’t have to. Not anymore. Enter a pair of “smart” shoes you ...

"A man with a can and a plan" is how Ryan Cook describes his spray-painting self. Watching him work at a festival or in his garage studio is a little like watching a paint ballet with colorfully ...

HAVING studied art all through her academic career, Northern Ballet dancer Olivia Holland has quickly found a way of turning her keen eye into an alternative career. Alongside appearances in ...

The world of ballet has long been criticised for having a problem with diversity. But could one small quirk be a symbol of the barriers facing non-white dancers, asks Kirstie Brewer. Ballet dancer ...