In recent years, dance has enjoyed a surge in popularity and gained acceptance as an athletic and masculine art for boys and teens — much more so than when Ed Parish was a boy. Parish, an American ...

Metropolitan Ballet Company is holding auditions for its renowned Boys' Scholarship Dance Program on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at 9:00 AM, at the Metropolitan Ballet Academy, 700 N. Cedar Road, ...

For the last few weeks, my husband “Derek” and I have been at odds over allowing our 8-year-old son, “Noah,” to take ballet lessons. Noah has a cousin who does ballet, and over the Christmas holiday ...

CINCINNATI — Children of all ages develop a passion for ballet at the Cincinnati Ballet Academy. “It is very athletic, it is very discipline oriented,” said Zack Grubbs, academy principal and former ...

It was amazing to walk into Sierra Nevada Ballet's Buck Room on Oct. 7 and see it filled with 20 happy, excited and enthusiastic boys! In my 48 years of teaching ballet I have never seen that many ...

Early in our family of two boys and two girls, my parents gave the boys piano lessons and the girls dancing lessons. I didn’t realize at the time that I would be able to play the piano as an elderly ...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — A Green Country ballet center is working to recruit more boys to join ballet. Bartlesville Civic Ballet is offering free classes for boys ages three and up. The dancers are ...

There’s no shortage of books on dance for girls, fiction and nonfiction alike. But far fewer books exist in which boys who are drawn to dance can see themselves. This season sees an addition to the ...

It’s becoming a trend at dance studios and on dance teams across the state: More and more boys and men are jumping into the ranks. One Twin Cities studio specializes in training male dancers of all ...