Desmond Richardson is dancing alone on stage to the poems by Maya Angelou, in song. Richardson, the the first principal African American dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), makes full use ...

Ballet performances are a mesmerizing spectacle on their own, but when the dancers are covered in body paint it's a whole other story. That's just what the audience was treated to last month at the ...

Ingrid Silva used to paint her ballet slippers. The 33-year-old dancer was born in Brazil but now performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City and explained that she used to use liquid ...

Tulsa Ballet definitely has something to crow about with "Paint It Black," which opened its two-weekend run Friday at the Lorton Performance Center.

Ballet is an exquisite, ephemeral expression. A dancer’s delicate footwork vanishes into thin air as quickly as it’s created, but it doesn’t have to. Not anymore. Enter a pair of “smart” shoes you ...

Good-bye pink tutu, hello day-glo body paint. Ballet gets a faddish make-over with techno-fantasy production Rave, an ecstatic, hypnotic fusion of catwalk posturing, break dancing, kung fu fighting ...

What if you could paint with your shoes? Electronic Traces is a pair ballet pointe shoes that sends a dancer's movements to a nearby smartphone. Using Lilypad Arduinos, they record pressure and ...

"A man with a can and a plan" is how Ryan Cook describes his spray-painting self. Watching him work at a festival or in his garage studio is a little like watching a paint ballet with colorfully ...

The world of ballet has long been criticised for having a problem with diversity. But could one small quirk be a symbol of the barriers facing non-white dancers, asks Kirstie Brewer. Ballet dancer ...