Fluttering arms, aching calves, bursting lungs: 'Swan Lake' is a ballerina's Mount Everest
Many across the world know “Swan Lake,” the most iconic of all ballets. Far fewer know just how hard the main ballerina role ...
This ‘Swan Lake’ Keeps the Tutus but Sheds the Tights
Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial ...
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'Swans of Harlem' book tells story of pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their 50-year sisterhood
Those who bravely did so are heralded with long-overdue recognition in "The Swans of Harlem," a new book by Karen Valby that ...
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Black Ballerina is one woman’s search for her place in the world of classical ballet
Black Ballerina by Syreeta Hector is not your everyday ... straight buns and pale ballet shoes are meant to match white skin, white features. Her performance challenges these ideas, asking ...
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Kaia Gerber’s Ballerina Flats Are It Girl-Approved
Gerber finished off her look with an Oh Mary! baseball cap and The Row’s celebrity-favorite ballet flats in black leather.
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La Scala exhibition celebrates the theater’s ballet corps with candid behind-the-scenes photos
The photographs — some in black and white, others in color — are interspersed with white paper sculptures of ballet costumes by Caterina Crepax, from flowing Romantic-era skirts to more ...
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The ballerina who stood up to the Ku Klux Klan
A Ballet Russe tour poster from 1955 Raven showed that Black dancers could 'lead with ... On one occasion, the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group stormed a Ballet Russe production at a theatre ...