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    Indian actor Ram Charan to dance 17 times again if Naatu Naatu wins Oscar

    13 Jan 2023

    After receiving international acclaim and bagging a Golden Globe award, RRR team now has its eyes set on the biggest of them all — Oscar.

    Ballet isn't as psycho as 'Tiny Pretty Things,' say French dancers

    07 Feb 2021

    "Yes, I've seen boys and girls take anti-inflammatories to dance and push the pain to the limit, but that isn't our daily lives."

    Kenyan ballet student struggles in a slum with no remote class amid the coronavirus pandemic

    14 May 2020

    Ballet isn’t just a passion. It could be a way out of poverty. Ochieng discovered the dance two years ago when teachers from the non-profit artists for Africa visited his school and showed his class a few moves.

    French govt offers concessions to striking dancers of Paris Opera

    29 Dec 2019

    With France gripped by strike action crippling the transport system in a dispute over pensions reform, news emerged Saturday of the latest government concessions -- to striking ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.

    Paris ballet's foreign legion reaches for the stars

    09 Dec 2019

    Unlike the Royal Ballet in London or the New York City-based American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet has very few foreign dancers -- of its 154, only 25 are not from France.

    Nearly 900 Mexican performers set world record for folk dance

    25 Aug 2019

    Nearly 900 people twirled and stamped their feet to mariachi music in the Mexican city of Guadalajara to set a Guinness record for the world's biggest folk dance.

    Bolshoi ballet star pays tribute to Coco Chanel in new show

    26 Jun 2019

    The life and works of fashion legend Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel will be celebrated in a new ballet premiering at Moscow's Bolshoi on Saturday that highlights the designer's love of Russia and starring prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova.

    Nigeria dance academy looks to spread ballet among Lagos children

    07 Jul 2020

    This is Leap of Dance Academy — a ballet school in a poor district of sprawling megacity Lagos that aims to bring classical dance to underprivileged children in Africa's most populous nation.

    Syrian dancer takes the spookily empty Paris as her canvas amid the coronavirus lockdown

    26 Apr 2020

    ​With the French capital in lockdown for nearly six weeks because of the coronavirus, the 26-year-old had some of the most visited sites in the world to herself.

    Meet the Russian craftsman who keeps ballerinas flying

    02 Mar 2020

    In a country better known for exporting oil and arms, Grishko is a rare success story for Russian craftmanship, its shoes sold around the globe and gracing the stages of the world's top ballet venues.

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