They said ballet wasn't for men and shouldn't be happening in Nigeria. Most of my friends at school stopped talking to me and ignored me. I felt so alone. But I also had my mother there.

"Studies have shown that it is so therapeutic for men to take any form of dance," notes Zoe Saldaña, who hopes to interest her sons in ballet.

Inspired by ballet’s 200-year-old tradition, Masero wanted his new work to turn the purpose of the corps upside down. “In ‘Paquita’ you have all women and one man, and the man walks around ...

Ballet’s marriage of athleticism and grace is echoed in the season’s men’s collections and brought to life by three dancers.

Ballet has evolved to view dancers as elite athletes, and it is enticing a new generation of boys to the studio.

Or why we need this ballet in the first place. Review: “Serenade” and “Of Mice and Men” by Joffrey Ballet When: Through May 8 Where: Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive Running time: Two ...

The Right Moves: A Dancer`s Training By Daphne Hurford Atlantic, 188 pages, $17.95 Ballet dancers have been called Poets of Gesture, and their lives are worthy of poetry. To create grace and beauty… ...

Well, he's going to get complaints about women because, traditionally in the ballet world, men are allowed to be different shapes. It doesn't mean they can really be overweight.

‘Ballet is woman,” Balanchine famously said, but this spring and summer, the dance world is raining men. One of them is 22-year-old Gentry George, who joined Ailey II last summer.