It is a dream many little girls share: dancing on stage in a pink satin tutu, spinning around on their pointes, and leaping effortlessly through the air. Should little girls do ballet? If your ...

Olivia Bell is an alum and mentor for Brown Girls Do Ballet who says her mentors and the community she developed through the program helped in her journey from growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ...

When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian was researching ballet classes for her daughter, she noticed a pattern. The majority of students and instructors at the ballet studios she found were white. She didn’t ...

The Internet has reinforced do-it-yourself instincts in practically every conceivable area, especially education. But recent reports of young girls trying to learn ballet from online videos, bypassing ...

Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...