Mixing Chinese ballet and Western modern dance, Wang Yuanyuan has become a global sensation Incorporating lessons from both worlds has helped the artistic director of Beijing Dance Company become ...

So what they call classical Chinese dance is really only 10 or 20 years old and has bits of traditional ballet, a little bit of Kung Fu, a bit of contemporary dance, a bit of everything.

But of course, it’s hardly the worst embodiment of racism on the ballet stage. Blackface is still tolerated in some “traditional” Russian ballets, and “The Nutcracker’s” Arabian Dance ...

Some were by Chinese dance-makers: Fei Bo, the resident choreographer of the National Ballet of China; Wang Yuanyuan, the founding director of Beijing Dance Theater.

A woman disguised as a boy falls in love with a man she can never have - it's the stuff of romantic tragedies from Shakespeare to "Yentl" and beyond. In ancient China, a similar legend took on ...

Lucy Chen became a student at Yanlai Dance Academy in 2005 when she was 6 years old. "It was a great way for me to personally connect with my culture; my dad is Chinese and he’s actually second ...

The famous Chinese ballet performing group, Shanghai Ballet, gave their performance of “Butterfly Lovers,” a Chinese ancient love story, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 28 and 29.

With the magical glow of a spotlight, grandiose sets and geometrically perfect choreography, the National Ballet of China’s “Chinese New Year (A Ballet In Two Acts)” performance transformed the ...

Is it Chinese ballet? Is it acrobatics? Is it gymnastics? Whatever it is, audiences are finding the unique dancing of Shen Yun Performing Arts incredibly beautiful and enchanting. “It was just ...

George Lee, a Chinese-born ballet dancer who was probably the first Asian to perform at New York City Ballet when he danced in George Balanchine’s original production of Tchaikovsky’s “The ...