4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (676+ words) Would you please explain the history of how white-soled dress sneakers became standard men's wear? l have seen them paired with the business casual dress of my sons and nephews in the Northwest and on well-tailored European 20- through 60-something businessmen....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1226+ words) The choreographer Pioneer Winter's "Apollo" begins with a curtain call. Three men perform a luxuriant sequence of bows, their glittery white costumes complementing the gray and white in their hair. After a few minutes, Winter, 38, enters " an Apollo in training....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1267+ words) Cory Stearns, the longtime American Ballet Theater star, had planned to dance his final performance with the company on June 27. "It wouldn't have been my first choice," Stearns, 40, said in an interview. "It would have been nice to dance a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (591+ words) Summer is almost here, which means it's time to start thinking about the shoes you'll be wearing over the next few months. But as trends come and go, it can be hard to know which styles are worth revisiting and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (877+ words) When Mena Mark Hanna went to Edinburgh in 2025 for the world premiere of Scottish Ballet's "Mary, Queen of Scots," he already knew that it would travel the next year to Spoleto Festival USA, for which he serves as general director....

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (941+ words) Claude Bessy, a graceful French ballet star whose firm hand at the helm of the Paris Opera Ballet School for three decades made it one of the world's top dance institutions, though her rigorous methods eventually drew stinging criticism, died…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1333+ words) His way of turning chaos into clockwork, of shifting the act of watching ballet to an out-of-body experience, might do a number on a choreographer trying to make a full-scale classical dance at City Ballet. (While grand, last year's "Paquita,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1086+ words) Mar'a Nieves Rego, who with her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes, formed a duo that, despite their often painful personal relationship, helped spark a tango revival in Argentina that spread worldwide, died on April 19 in Buenos Aires....

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (936+ words) On, the Swiss running-shoe company, is moving fast. But having made the leap from start-up to established name in performance footwear, the company finds itself at a critical juncture: How does it stay true to its roots as a brand…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1265+ words) The first time Olivia Kathleen Mac Kinnon met William Howard Keenan III, he was wearing a tutu, a tiara, tights and bloody socks at his sister's Halloween party in 2019. The costume? Injured ballerina. "I found it funny, slightly endearing and…...