For the last few weeks, my husband “Derek” and I have been at odds over allowing our 8-year-old son, “Noah,” to take ballet lessons. Noah has a cousin who does ballet, and over the ...

The first steps in his ballet career were taken in his local dance school where he was the only boy in attendance. "There's the stereotype – boys don't do ballet," Christopher explains.

The ballet master banished me to the back of the class; the boy who partnered me heaved sighs while executing lifts. For what it’s worth, I was dancing on ill-fitting, “dead” pointe shoes ...

says “I haven’t had any ballet classmates who are boys, and other grades have, at most, one boy in the class.” Often, this is because they are discouraged by the lack of social acceptance.

What comes to mind when you think of ballet? Many of us might envision a group of beautiful women dancing, complete with graceful, feminine movements, tutus and, of course, lots of pink.