The all-male comic ballet company, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, has defied stereotypes and surpassed industry barriers in the dance world since its 1974 founding. Fifty years later, the ...

If there were any lingering doubts about the transparent strength and athleticism of dancers, they have surely been quashed thanks to the recent rash of bad-ass ballerinas on screen. And as with any ...

Like most Aspenites, chances are you have spring fever. The time of year has come to loosen up the clothing and the attitudes. In short, it’s time to say goodbye to a long and difficult winter and, in ...

Could soybeans be used as a paper-mache product?” It’s just another Google search in the day of an ag writer slash parent of ...

At this dance school, young girls dream of wearing uncomfortable shoes that may only hold up for a few months — and their parents are fully supportive. This isn’t a new fashion trend. It’s the reality ...

Amid the recent fracas about drag performance as a threat to the social fabric, historians remind us that the practice of cross-gender performance on the stage goes back to the earliest days of ...

Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...