Many summer intensives have a variety of different classes daily, that you don't often take regularly year round. Which class do you enjoy most from the list?

Its interesting to see how each individual has a unique way of preparing their pointe shoes to fit their person preferences.

Since it's YAGP season here, I want to emphasize the importance of acquiring basic technique skills. While watching dancers perform at YAGP, you can see them do multiple pirouettes, yet they lack the technique to close to a simple fifth position. The beau...

There are many inspiring stories of young artists that remain untold or unheard of. It's not until someone decides share their side of the story with the rest of us. Here are the 5 best, and most inspiring ballet movies.

This contestant blew the audience away by dancing to his own animated backdrop

Adrian Blake Mitchell is a danseur with the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. Mitchell has danced various soloist and principal roles in his first year at the theater.

Where Choreography meets Gardening. :)

We do not believe that you can learn Ballet movements online, but you can learn the theory and comprehend how those movements are executed. Muscle memory can be a blessing and a curse - if you take a couple of classes and learn incorrect techniques, it wi...

"Swan lake". Ballet to the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky. Fragment of the first action. Bolshoi Theatre, 02/23/2020. Odette - Olga Smirnova. Siegfried - Jacopo Tissi.

When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance

Competitions have long been a platform where student dancers can enjoy positive experiences and learn from sharing with like-minded, passionate young people. Many top professionals speak of how competitions gave them life-changing opportunities and a plac...

VBA students are rehearsing The Nutcracker for Christmas days performances at the Mariinsky Theatre. Tickets are available. Video by Ilya Kuznetsov. October 2015

A list of stretches that will improve your turnout. Each stretch comes with a description of the goals of each position.

This quiz tests your knowledge of basic to advanced ballet terminology and their translations.

This is an iconic dance scene from the 1936 movie "Swing Time". This movie was selected in 2004 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "Culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant". It...