In Nicole Cuffy's 'Dances', a Black dancer explores the complex terrain of being a pioneer in the predominantly white space of classical ballet.

Tyde-Courtney Edwards, founding director of Ballet After Dark, is a classically trained black ballerina, art model, and survivor of sexual assault who is on a mission to help others heal from ...

From its first woozy, tightrope step, “Black Swan” is thrown into an exploration of binaries. Girl and woman, light and dark, doppelgangers, white swan and black swan. And so Nina’s transformation ...

You can get a full dose of the effect at the Kennedy Center Opera House this week, where the New York City Ballet is performing a series of Balanchine’s black-and-white ballets — so called ...

Nicole Cuffy loves to dance and the art of ballet. She also loves a nightly bath, where sometimes ideas come to her, like in May of 2015. NICOLE CUFFY: I just had this craving to immerse myself in ...

In the short film titled, 'High Above', the video sees a young black girl who aspires to become a ballerina and attend the prestigious dance school in Harlem, while India Arie's syrupy-soulful ...

But as Laguna Art Museum’s new exhibit, “Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” demonstrates, black and white can contain multiplicities.

Dressed in an ivory white leotard and tutu, a tall Black figure poses in retiré. Arms and legs angular, chest turned towards the light. It’s a traditional oil on linen — the frothy movement ...