On Thursday night, a different kind of dying swan will grace the stage of Meany Hall. She will wear a classical white tutu (which, alas, may suffer from a bit of molting) and pointe shoes, and will ...

We are creatures of our bodies. They walk us around and sit us down. They run, they jump, they twist, they fall. They dance. The 16th Annual Vail International Dance Festival celebrates the mystery ...

With apologies to pointe shoes, nothing says “classical ballet” like a tutu. For more than a century, little has changed with the basic structure of its two essential styles: the historically older ...

At Ferragamo, creative director Maximilian Davis made Katherine Dunham his muse, pinning images of the dancer and social activist (who helped pioneer the 20th-century African and Caribbean dance ...

Olga Supphozova glides across the stage in pointe shoes and a feathered tutu, her arms extended in elegant lines of beauty and strength. But the piece is called “The Dying Swan” for a reason — pretty ...

The unabashedly confident young Houston Ballet soloist burned that question into my brain Thursday by unleashing a streak of piqué turns so lightning fast, I half expected her to leave charred lines ...