No one would have blamed Nikoloz Makhateli if he had said no a third time to Michigan Ballet Academy (MBA) board president David Bellamy's offer to take over the artistic leadership of the academy.

Local dancer, Grace Petzoldt, will be competing at the Nashville regional of Youth America Grand Prix International Ballet Competition March 9-10, 2024. Grace is a junior at Saxony Lutheran High ...

The Valentina Kozlova INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION, celebrating its 13th year, returns to The Kaye Playhouse, with 200+ young classical ballet and contemporary dancers, ages 9 to 26, from ...

The Fonteyn (previously known as The Genée) is one of the oldest and most prestigious ballet competitions in the world, representing the pinnacle of achievement for young dancers trained in the RAD ...

Competing in ballet is not for everyone, according to 16-year-old Alexei Orohovsky of Hattiesburg. He should know. The Hattiesburg teen has been dancing most of his life. He won second place in the ...

Two aspiring Southern California ballet students, Jordan Coutts, 15, and Aviva Gelfer-Mundl, 16, recently received news that could make their dance careers. The teen dancers were selected to compete ...

Fourteen-year-old Madeline Woo gets to take Sundays off. On her day of rest she and her family go to church and visit her grandparents, then maybe she’ll hang out with a friend. She has to be en ...

A member of the Kentucky Ballet Theatre, who will perform in Lexington’s “Ballet Under the Stars,” won a silver medal in an international ballet competition last week. Jorge Barani, 23, principal ...