Copeland’s role as the first African American female principal dancer at ABT has had a lasting impact, paving the way for ...

It's become a holiday tradition, but you may not know "The Nutcracker" ballet began as a short story first told a century ago, and that's the source of inspiration for a new movie. "The Nutcracker and ...

Misty Copeland has taken her final bow. On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Copeland, 43, celebrated her final ballet performance with ...

Copeland was showered with golden glitter and flowers after she wowed the crowd at the David H. Koch Theater one last time in ...

Complimentary tickets will be available to watch the simulcast of Copeland's performance on Wednesday, Oct. 22 in New York ...

Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes Wednesday, putting a final exclamation point on a trailblazing career in which she ...

The first Black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre might be hanging up her toe shoes, but she’s still raising ...

She didn’t take a single ballet lesson until 13, an age when most dancers have already been dancing for nearly a decade. Her single-parent household of six children was “barely scraping by,” in her ...

Classical ballet seems an unlikely battleground for issues of racial stereotyping and exclusivity, but an art form popularly epitomized by the image of an ethereal creature, almost invariably white, ...