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Why Twyla Tharp wants us to ‘shut up’ and do what we love
Twyla Tharp is the greatest choreographer of our era. Her groundbreaking career in dance blended classical ballet with contemporary culture. Now, at age 78, Tharp is sharing her innovative approach to health and aging in a new book. Jeffrey Brown…
Alicia Alonso, grande dame of Cuban ballet, dies at 98
As founder and director of the National Ballet of Cuba, Alonso personified the island's arts program under Fidel Castro's communist rule and she kept vise-like control over the troupe past her 90th birthday despite being nearly blind for decades.
In “Ballet Across America,” Misty Copeland and Justin Peck paint dance’s diverse future
“I hope that American ballet will continue to evolve in a way that really embraces who we are as artists and Americans,” Copeland said.
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From battlefield to ballet, South Korean soldiers dance off stress
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a division of the South Korean army is turning out pirouettes and tendus. Weekly ballet classes provide these soldiers, who guards the zone at the demilitarized zone along the border of North…
The challenge: bring together some of the Bay Area’s top turf dancers alongside the region’s rising ballet talent in a single dance project.
When we only pay attention to the things that are trending in our social networks, we may be missing some compelling stories. Carlos Watson, CEO of website Ozy, joins Gwen Ifill to share a few overlooked items, including efforts to…
In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, 18-year-old Miko Fogarty pirouettes and arabesques her way through San Francisco, explaining her experience as a not-so-typical ballerina who has won a spot on one of the world’s most prestigious stages.
Miko Fogarty, a Bay-area teenager, is on her way to the U.K. to pursue a career as a professional ballerina for the prestigious Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Misty Copeland, who has been outspoken about race in the world of dance, has become the first black principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, a first in the top ballet company's 75-year history.
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