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This image released by Amazon MGM Studios shows Yanic Truesdale, left, and Charlotte Gainsbourg in a scene from "Etoile." (Philippe Antonello/Amazon MGM Studios via AP)

Can 'Étoile’ make ballet cool? ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ creators pirouette to ballet-themed show

Jack runs a ballet company in New York. Geneviève runs a ballet company in Paris. They’re competitors, but audiences are fading.
April 25
Unity Phelan rehearses for her role as Swan Queen in New York City Ballet's Swan Lake, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Fluttering arms, aching calves, bursting lungs: ‘Swan Lake’ is a ballerina’s Mount Everest

March 12
Young people participate in the opening ceremony of the Lawyers' Ball in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

‘Let the waltz begin!’ Vienna’s ball season has 18th century roots, but teens now go online to dance

March 7
Queen Latifah, center, performs "Ease on Down the Road" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Oscars’ choreographer Mandy Moore on ‘Wicked’ opening, Quincy Jones and that salute to James Bond

March 3
Dancer Yolanda Montez, better known as Tongolele, talks about a photograph in her home, during an interview in Mexico City, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Tongolele, iconic dancer of the golden era of Mexican cinema, dies at 93

February 17

Minneapolis celebrates Mayday with a battletrain and puppets

Minneapolis celebrates Mayday with a battletrain and puppets
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New Prime series 'Étoile’ goes behind the scenes in the ballet world

Dancers converge on NYC for Radio City Rockettes audition

No booze, no cost, no judging: Inside Mexico City’s free dance parties

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This cover image released by Nancy Paulsen Books shows "Bunheads, Act 2: The Dance of Courage" by Misty Copeland, with illustrations by Setor Fiadzigbey. (Nancy Paulsen Books via AP)

Misty Copeland’s new picture story, ‘Bunheads, Act 2,’ will be out in September

February 12
Pictures are displayed during the unveiling at La Scala Opera House of the photo exhibition 'Lo sguardo nascosto' ( The hidden gaze) by photographer Gerard Uferas, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

La Scala exhibition celebrates the theater’s ballet corps with candid behind-the-scenes photos

February 11
Hailey Zhao leaps from a chair during a ballet performance at the Youth America Grand Prix, Friday, Jan 17, 2025, at the Hanover Theater in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Teen dancers descend on Massachusetts to compete in the ‘American Idol’ of ballet

January 21
Young dancers perform, during a Christmas ballet event in Kibera slum, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Ballerinas turn one of Kenya’s largest slums into a stage for a Christmas show

December 23, 2024

How the Roxies are made: Behind the iconic role in Broadway’s megahit ‘Chicago’

December 17, 2024

Lawsuit alleges that young dancers for Shen Yun Performing Arts have faced abuse

November 25, 2024
FILE - Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, observes young dancers during a workshop at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Judith Jamison, a dancer both eloquent and elegant, led Ailey troupe to success over two decades

November 11, 2024
FILE - Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, observes young dancers during a workshop at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Judith Jamison, transcendent dancer and artistic director of Alvin Ailey company, dies at 81

November 10, 2024
FILE - Christopher Ciccone, brother of Madonna and author of "Life With My Sister Madonna," poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, Friday, August 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, has died at 63

October 6, 2024
This image released by New York City Center shows the Gallim dance company during a rehearsal "Sama." (Rachel Papo/New York City Center via AP)

At NY’s beloved Fall for Dance, highlights come from as far as Ukraine and as close as a few blocks

September 27, 2024
French-Algerian choreographer Mourad Merzouki guides his dancers as they rehearse for "Dance of the Games" at the concert hall in Creteil, east of Paris, Wednesday July 31, 2024. Merzouki is bringing hip-hop dance to the Paris Olympics. The French-Algerian choreographer is the creator of the “Dance of the Games.” Merzouki's showcase at the Trocadéro Champions Park kicks off Monday Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Mourad Merzouki brings hip-hop dance to the Olympic stage in the heart of Paris

August 5, 2024
Choreographer Kenny Wormald poses for photographs after an interview with the Associated Press at Playground London dance studio, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

New reality TV show ‘Playground’ puts dance studio dramas center stage

July 25, 2024
Etoile Nicoletta Manni performs during the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet L' histoire de Manon at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, Monday, July 8, 2024. It was just another night on the La Scala stage for Italian prima ballerina Nicoletta Manni when on Nov. 8, 2023, she received the surprise of her career: The 32-year-old dancer was named La Scala's first Etoile, or principal dancer, from within the ballet corps in nearly 40 years. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Nicoletta Manni shines as La Scala’s 1st company Etoile principal dancer in nearly 40 years

July 12, 2024
This image released by the American Ballet Theatre shows Alessandra Ferri during a rehearsal of Wayne McGregor's "Woolf Works" in New York. (Kyle Froman/ American Ballet Theatre via AP)

At 61, ballerina Alessandra Ferri is giving her pointe shoes one last — maybe? — glorious whirl

June 27, 2024
Dancers from the Olympic Games opening ceremony perform during a rehearsal Friday, June 7, 2024 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. The troupe of dancers for the historic opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics—the first to be held outside a stadium—are putting the finishing touches on a high-octane performance that will combine urban, contemporary, classic, and break dancing, complete with stomps, shouts, and body rolls. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Paris gets into the groove for historic Olympic opening ceremony, adapted to its iconic cityscape

June 18, 2024
This photo shows an exterior view of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 22, 2024. Sweden’s national theater for opera and ballet, the Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera, has been fined 3 million kronor ($300,000) after a stage technician died in 2023, when he fell around 13 meters (more than 40 feet) from a balcony as he was carrying out work inside the building. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden’s foremost opera and ballet theater fined $300,000 for 2023 fatal fall of stage technician

June 7, 2024
New York City Ballet's artistic director Jonathan Stafford, right, and associate artistic director Wendy Whelan pose inside the lobby of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

At 75, NYC Ballet is getting older. Its audience is skewing younger, and that’s the plan

May 24, 2024
FILE - The amphitheater at Little Island appears in New York on May 18, 2021. The 700-seat amphitheater will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s “How Long Blues” in the choreographer’s first full-length work in a decade. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York’s Little Island park in June

May 6, 2024
Performers, who will take part in the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, enter the Olympic Velodrome ahead of a practice in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame lighting ceremony in southern Greece at Ancient Olympia. The event is marked with a performance by dancers who assume the role of priestesses and male companions, their movement inspired by scenes on millennia-old artwork. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past

April 15, 2024
Lorin Latarro attends "The Who's Tommy" Broadway opening night at the Nederlander Theatre on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. The quintessential rock musical is thrillingly alive again on Broadway. And just a few blocks away is a new rock show featuring music by Huey Lewis and The News. The connecting tissue between them is the in-demand choreographer Latarro, known for her bespoke approach and a fluency when it comes to rock. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Choreographer Lorin Latarro, rock’s whisperer on Broadway, gives flight to the Who and Huey Lewis

April 9, 2024
La Scala's dance company and the orchestra stand on stage before the final performance of the opera-ballet "Madina" beneath a banner reading: "Ceasefire" in Milan, Italy, Saturday, March 9, 2024. The sentiment received a standing ovation lasting at least two minutes Saturday evening before the final performance of the opera house's original production “Madina,” which tells the story of a Chechen woman who is manipulated to become a suicide bomber after she is orphaned and raped by Russian soldiers. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

La Scala performers and workers call for Gaza cease-fire before opera-ballet set in conflict

March 10, 2024
International ballet superstar Carlos Acosta speaks at a presentation for media about his brand-new production 'Nutcracker in Havana' at the Carlos Acosta Dance Studios in London, Monday, March 4, 2024. Nutcracker in Havana will have its world premiere on Nov. 1, 2024 at Norwich Theatre Royal, before embarking on a UK tour including a week at London's Southbank Centre in Dec. 2024, with further venues to be announced. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Carlos Acosta brings the streets of Havana to ‘The Nutcracker’ with new take on holiday ballet

March 4, 2024
This photo provided by Joyce Theater shows Herman Cornejo in “Twyla Tharp Dance." at New York's intimate Joyce Theater. Choreographer Twyla Tharp has been making dances for six decades, and she's still creating at 82. Her latest production is a three-part show, “Twyla Tharp Dance,” at New York's intimate Joyce Theater. (Steven Pisano/Joyce Theater via AP)

Review: Choreographer Twyla Tharp, still inventing at 82, displays her latest creations

February 20, 2024
FILE - Actress Tiler Peck attends the world premiere of "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" at One Hanson on Thursday, May 9, 2019, in New York. Peck, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet, choreographed her first ballet “Concerto for Two Pianos," which is playing there through Feb. 24, 2024. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Dancer Tiler Peck makes her choreography debut at the New York City Ballet

February 14, 2024
Professor Naoko Kihara, who has practiced Hanayagi-style dance for over two decades, stands in her studio during an interview in Mexico City, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Born in Brazil from Japanese parents who later moved to Mexico City, she carries on the legacy of Tamiko Kawabe, her mentor and pioneer of Hanayagi-style dance. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

In Mexico, a Japanese traditional dancer shows how body movement speaks beyond culture and religion

December 2, 2023
Cynthia Erivo, left, performs at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 65th anniversary season gala on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)

Alvin Ailey troupe – and a soulful Cynthia Erivo – join to celebrate dance legend Judith Jamison

November 30, 2023
A participant takes part in a James Bond-inspired Day of the Dead Parade, in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. The Hollywood-style parade was adopted in 2016 by Mexico City to mimic a fictitious march in the 2015 James Bond movie “Spectre.” (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Skeleton marching bands and dancers in butterfly skirts join in Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade

November 5, 2023
American Ballet Theater's ballerina Devon Teuscher rehearses for a performance at the Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. The American national ballet company is returning to China for the first time in a decade for shows in Shanghai and Beijing in the latest sign strained relations between the United States and China are beginning to thaw. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

American Ballet Theatre returns to China after a decade as US-China ties show signs of improving

November 2, 2023
FILE - Misty Copeland attends the American Ballet Theatre June gala and premiere of "Like Water for Chocolate" in New York on June 22, 2023. The first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre in 2015, Copeland says she never takes that opportunity for granted. Her recent work includes being co-founder and designer of a new athletic wear brand, the role of interviewer on a new show called “PBS Arts Talk,” and starting a petition to get more inclusive dance emojis. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Misty Copeland’s dedication to inclusion spans many projects — and her push for new dance emojis

October 10, 2023
CORRECTS SECOND SENTENCE - People gather at a gas station during a vigil to memorialize O'Shae Sibley on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sibley, a gay man, was fatally stabbed at the gas station after a confrontation between a group of friends dancing to a Beyoncé song and several young men who taunted them. (AP Photo/Tracie Van Auken)

Person in connection with dancer’s stabbing death at Brooklyn gas station is in custody, police say

August 5, 2023
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