Ballet isn’t gender-specific; films like Billy Elliot helped to inspire boys worldwide to bump up their muscles with ballet, and even professional footballers can be found taking classes to help ...

Learn the French names for some ballet moves and try them together. A plié is a good one to start with - just put your hands on your hips, point your feet outwards, and bend your knees.

But Lemuel Ma and Wesley Matsuharu Lai, two teen dancers in the Hong Kong Ballet’s Classical Training Programme, know that boys also have a place in ballet. Lemuel and Wesley, both 14 ...

Riddell withdrew from the Guild to start their own group in July 1961. Encouraged by the support of Dance Master George Balanchine (who charged Franklin with carrying on in Washington “what I ...