Brian Heil has good reason to believe that his career as a ballet artist was his destiny: His ability to work consistently and contribute to the dance community in his hometown is a rarity. “At ...
As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the century.
SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) -- Sounds of pointe shoes can always be heard inside the studios of Ballet West, but you would never guess the person wearing those shoes is 23-year-old Jonas Malinka-Thompson.
In 2020, Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, artistic director of the “Men Who Dance” all-male dance festival and founder of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute, introduced the inaugural program as a bold ...
With sparkling snowflakes and the first notes of Tchaikovsky’s beloved score, "The Nutcracker'' arrives every December. First State Ballet Theatre’s production of the cherished classic is exceptional.
San Francisco Ballet dancer Lleyton Ho didn’t have to use much imagination to play a frantic university student studying anatomy with Victor Frankenstein. For the company’s spring production of ...