Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...

NEW YORK CITY -- 9-year-old April and 10-year-old Brooke were banned from performing in the annual "Black Nutcracker" in New York City because of their braids, according to their mother. Every year ...

Throughout history, African American dancers, choreographers and instructors (e.g. Kathrine Dunham, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey, Cab Calloway, and the Nicholas Brothers) have made major contributions ...

Ever since Gilmore Girls, writer/director/showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino has become synonymous with a certain kind of cozy, girly escapism. That was initially the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ana Shushu remembers the first time she saw a fan of arms extending and retracting in careful, choreographed motion for the Buddha with a Thousand Hands ...

Guan Yu from the Beijing Dance Academy gives a ballet class to rural girls in Duancun village in Hebei province. Provided to China Daily Every weekend over the past few months, Guan Yu and his wife ...