To say body image and weight are sore subjects in regard to ballet is an understatement. The line for reasonable expectations continues to be blurred.
Although I make my living as a film maker, I teach a class I developed about entrepreneurship called "Creativity: Making a Living With Your Ideas" at Parsons School for Design in New York City. I was recently interviewed about building and sustaining a creative career by Doug Smith.
Test, a film set in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1985, focuses on a prestigious dance company dealing with the spread of HIV ...
One day my knees are the problem, another day my back, some days my hips or feet. As an adult dancer who takes two to three ballet classes a week, I get sick and tired of my never-ending aches and pains, but that's the reality when you're still taking class and you're over 50...
I was "talked to" on several occasions about my weight. These aren't easily forgettable conversations.
After staring from my window at Caesar's Palace, across the street to the towering advertisement for Jubilee! I had to learn more.
Do music videos get a bad rap for their treatment of women? Former rap video dancer Melyssa Ford talked to HuffPost Live host Dena Takruri about how s...
Admit it, that's exactly what you want: the body of dancer, with long, lean muscles. Here's the secret.
Matter has managed to capture dance in a way I have never quite seen it before. It's fresh and fun, and it really must have been something to be involved in the shoots pictured in this book. Let's take a peek behind the scenes.
What held me was how this passage linked dance, which I knew and loved, with sex, which as a good little girl, I feared. It proposed passion as a natural outgrowth of dance; it linked the ecstasy I knew with the one I didn't. It was a sign -- for a long time, one of a very few -- that I would cross with pleasure into my adult body.
How did we go from being the country that is credited with pioneering modern dance to one in which we have to work so hard to get people to care about it?
Today is the birthday of Impressionist extraordinaire Edgar Degas. The dreamy painter who idealized the beauty of ballet would turn 178 if he were mag...
Yes, being a dancer is very difficult financially. But can dance in the United States sustain the lives of its dancers? Do dance professionals need to forever ask mom and dad, lovers and spouses to support our us because our career cannot?
I've come to a conclusion about dance and money: if dancers did not sometimes sleep with rich people, American dance as we know it would cease to exist.
Ballet is perfect; dancers are not. And thank goodness! A blunder now and then is just enough to remind the audience that what looks easy is actually brutally difficult, and it reminds us that we are not the gods and goddesses we sometimes think we are.
February. Here in this northern city it's cold. Onstage you can still see dancers running barefoot in silky rags that flutter, revealing midriff, shap...
Choreographically, the ballet is devilish and the partnering is unbelievably hard! The biggest challenge though, is to master the choreography while transcending the difficulty of the steps to tell the story.
NEW YORK -- Fernando Botero's monumental bronze "Dancers" fetched over $1.7 million dollars at a New York auction, setting a new record for a sculptur...
It's been said New York's subway systems are a clear target for terrorist activities. Strange, then, that a shirtless, tattoed man in a gas mask serpe...
It's that time of year: the opening of the ballet season. Common sense and courtesy will vastly improve the enjoyment of everyone's theatre experience...
Dancers donned lacy corsets, slinky fishnets and stiletto heels before descending upon London's Trafalgar Square in an effort to break the record for ...
Some artists are one hit wonders, some get enough acclaim to grow their craft over time. Luckily for us as audience members, choreographer Heidi Latsky never gave up.
Last night at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, the women of Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana hosted their second Burlesque for the Bayou fund rai...
Striking more than a few dubious poses, a group of four German teens called "Die Dezentiner" took home top honors at the 2010 Ugly Dance World Cup, he...
