Darcy Lei, D.O., focuses on dance and performing arts health care in UC Health’s Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine. A former pre-professional ballerina, she knows the day-to-day injury ...

HOUSTON – “A lot of death happens in them,” jokes Houston Ballet principal dancer Jessica Collado of her silk, baby pink ballet slippers. A ballerina’s point shoes have a reputation for being tough on ...

Classical ballet is such a curious art form. It’s something like 500 years old (give or take a century), it’s almost absurdly formal and stylized (I mean, the women dance on the tips of their toes for ...

There’s something timeless about the way ballerinas move — every step, every gesture feels effortlessly graceful. But behind that poise lies years of discipline, focus, and deep self-awareness. Ballet ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools focusing on their well-being, both physical and ...

I admit that I don’t usually like photography of dancers. It makes them look like buildings—solid, structured, and immovable. It stops time, the essence of dance, and freezes the dancer in a single ...

San Francisco Ballet principal dancers Madeline Woo and Nikisha Fogo reveal some of the backstage secrets about performing in ...