“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and ...

When I first started writing about my relationship to dance, I was careful not to call myself a dancer. Or I put “dancer” in quotes. Not a real dancer, I hoped the quotes made clear. I was a person, a ...

Her curatorial approach transforms the stage into a meeting place for different genres and creative sensibilities to ...

Aliya Brooks was hugely inspired by her grandmother, Mildred "Millie" Cruzat, who was a dancer. Millie taught dance and stretching until age 93, and followed a balanced but fun lifestyle. Brooks ...

It was about an hour after my last pirouette of the evening onstage with the American Ballet Theatre, and I was already in my pajamas. With a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, I ...

My Spotify is my most honest form of social media. Instagram is a polished, posed image of my hilarious, cool, city girl life. Twitter is a library of my neverending witty refrains, dry remarks and ...

As a teenager, ballet was just one of my extracurriculars, a hobby alongside piano and watercoloring. But as it turns out, ballet demanded more from me than tickling the ivory. Six days a week, we met ...

It was 2016 and I had asked for warm-up boots for Christmas. The puffy boots, which looked like trash bags, insulated the feet before rehearsals and were wildly popular at my ballet studio. After ...

I grew up during the golden age of the Canada Fitness Test, a government program designed in the early 1970s to promote and encourage physical activity among seven- to 18-year-olds. Noble intentions, ...

Many of us have stories about being forced to attend various extracurricular activities as children by our well-meaning parents. Personally, I have a lot of those stories. I realize it’s because my ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic upends every aspect of Boston life, we’re checking in with some local residents to learn how they’re processing our new normal. They’ll share serious thoughts on their ...