When Alexandra Francois went to parties with lively music playing as a little girl, she couldn’t resist getting out of her chair and doing her thing. “People would just step aside” when Alexandra took ...

Nearly 100 girls from across the country, will soon learn how to build confidence through dance at Cincinnati Ballet.Choreographing Confidence is a dance and leadership workshop meant to build ...

Stories of disaffected youth have long had a home in the theatre, from the swagger of West Side Story to the class tensions ...

Sophia Jablonski used to sit in her wheelchair and dream about taking dance classes, just like her younger sister, Stephanie. “I wanted to be like her,” said 11-year-old Sophia. Sophia, who has ...

SAO PAULO — Past the graffiti-covered overpass and subway tracks, in a slum penned in by high-rises, 8-year-old Gabriela Aparecida fixes her curly hair into a bun as she waits for a ride to her new ...

A few years ago, photographer Takiyah Wallace was searching for a dance studio in Dallas for her 3-year-old daughter, who had expressed an interest in ballet, when she noticed something. “One of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by New York City Ballet invited 4,500 students to see the show. We hung out with third graders from Girls Prep Bronx and talked ballet. By Julia Jacobs ...