An older sister dragged Eli Waunch to his first ballet class at age 9. His two brothers also were talked into going to the session, so that the girls in a Deer Park program could dance with male ...

On a recent Saturday morning, in an over-100-year-old former church near Stillwater, a ballet student glided across the hardwood floor before leaping upwards. “Use your arms to help you in the ...

For centuries, ballerinas have mesmerized audiences with their exquisite movements, refinement and gracefulness of each step. Behind this beauty are years of hard training and strict discipline, but ...

There is a ballet class that takes place in the East Village of New York most Mondays at 10:45 a.m. It has all the markings of a makeshift studio: an abandoned stage, portable barres, two small ...