It’s a freezing day in the French capital and Marie-Agnès Gillot, 42, wants to sit outside in the snow and smoke. No matter that she’s got the flu and a hacking cough. She briefly thought about ...

The Paris Opera Ballet named New Zealand's Hannah O'Neill and France's Marc Moreau on Thursday as their two new star dancers, the former a rare non-French dancer in the world's oldest ballet company.

"I came here because I wanted to dance. It has been an amazing time for me," Mathilde Froustey declares in French-accented English. She got what she asked for - and then some - when she took a ...

The world's oldest ballet company is undergoing a racial reckoning. The Paris Opera Ballet is working to update racist stereotypes and increase diversity. The world's oldest ballet company is doing ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The dancer, who died on 17 July at 96, was one of ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Writer Charles Engell France, who was Mikhail Baryshnikov's assistant at the American Ballet Theater during the 1980s, has died in New York at age 59. France collapsed in ...

A press conference to announce the 2021 collaborative plan between China and France on ballet dance was held by the Centre de Communication de Ballet Fran?ais in Beijing on Wednesday. The conference ...

Widespread strikes across France in opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping pension reform plans began in the first week of December, 2019 and have found their way into various sectors of ...

Ballet de France, a Virginia Broodmare of the Year, was euthanized Aug. 5 at Stewart Bainum's Dinwiddie Farm near Middleburg, Va. The 24-year-old daughter of Northern Dancer and her daughters ...

The world's oldest ballet company is doing some soul searching. The Paris Opera Ballet is addressing questions of race and racism in its ranks and repertoire. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. ELEANOR ...