Drew Howard’s black leggings floating in a sea of cotton-candy pink tights conspicuously underscores the fact that he is the only boy in the ballet class. The girls giggling and whispering around him ...

If you ask someone to name a valuable commodity, they may say gold, or oil. Ask someone in ballet the same question, and there’s good chance they’ll say boys. Most ballets have almost equal part male ...

A beautiful ballerina and a handsome prince are at the heart of the world's most famous ballets. Sleeping Beauty. Swan Lake. The Nutcracker, of course. And at training grounds for future dancers, ...

CINCINNATI — Children of all ages develop a passion for ballet at the Cincinnati Ballet Academy. “It is very athletic, it is very discipline oriented,” said Zack Grubbs, academy principal and former ...

Matt Rescigno is convinced that as a 16-year-old longtime dance student, he can do moves that a captain of a high-school football team can't. Rescigno studies hip-hop and break-dance at the Broadway ...

American Ballet Theater dancer Alex Hammoudi, a soloist with the New York company, made a visit to Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County Loveland clubhouse on Thursday. He was a guest instructor for ...

In recent years, dance has enjoyed a surge in popularity and gained acceptance as an athletic and masculine art for boys and teens — much more so than when Ed Parish was a boy. Parish, an American ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Boys can learn ballet for free at the Philadelphia Dance Academy. We spoke with a couple of dancers who reminded us why inclusivity is important. "I've been dancing for six years ...

In the world of ballet, being a boy dancer means being outnumbered 10-1 by girls in most classes, and getting fairly good at ignoring comments from male peers about the fact that you wear tights.