Black and mixed heritage ballet dancers have ... and stressed that non-white ballet dancers should be treated with equal "respect" and "dignity". "I feel so much pain with this and so much to ...

Germany's most prestigious ballet company has come under fire ... mistress had her pose to recreate a painting of a black dancer surrounded white dancers. The teacher said she would show her ...

In one production, Lopes Gomes said, the ballet mistress was handing out white veils for the dancers to wear and told her: "I can't give you one. The veil is white and you're black." She said the ...

Groundbreaking ballet dancer Misty Copeland continues to advocate for Black talent in the classical ... that the swans should ...

Some might call it the “American Idol” of ballet dancing. Hundreds of young ballet dancers from the Northeast spent the past ...

Her revisited versions of the great classics of romantic ballet drew on African dance to speak of the society in which she lived and of tolerance across borders, the award announcement said.