In one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, one woman is using ballet to guide young girls away from a future of poverty and crime. But to keep her dance academy alive, she must constantly bend ...

Kendall Jenner is just the latest of many It girls who have fallen hard for ballet flats 2.0. Shop the chic style they're ...

Olivia Bell is an alum and mentor for Brown Girls Do Ballet who says her mentors and the community she developed through the program helped in her journey from growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ...

Tilly Abbe, a San Francisco ballet teacher for four decades, has never advertised. She never bothered with a Yellow Pages listing and for many years didn't even put a sign on her door. Known as Miss ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

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 favorite ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY -- 9-year-old April and 10-year-old Brooke were banned from performing in the annual "Black Nutcracker" in New York City because of their braids, according to their mother. Every year ...

THE glittering world of ballet hides a nightmare behind its curtains – a world of control, cruelty, and corruption. An ...

Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...