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Philadelphia’s Chocolate Ballerina Company will debut its version of “Swan Lake” this weekend. Philly Live photojournalist Derrick Cheston captures what audiences can expect.

Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle checks out what awaits “Behind the Stage Door.” The collaboration between Philadelphia Ballet and Mural Arts Philadelphia brings dance into places where you normally don’t see ballet performed.

Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle speaks to Karlya Shelton Benjamin and Lydia Abarca Mitchell about the lasting influence of Dance Theatre of Harlem that is told through 152nd St. Black Ballet Legacy. Philadelphia Ballet’s Shelly Power hopes an upcoming conversation with the groundbreaking ballerinas inspires and supports the next generation of Black dancers.

Russian Ballet Theatre’s Gulya Hartwick tells Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle what audiences can expect as “Swan Lake” hits the stage in Reading and Trenton.

“I think that the audiences are ready, they’ve missed us, and they’re eager to come back,” ABT Executive Director Kara Medoff Barnett told CNBC on Friday.

Pennsylvania Ballet guest choreographer Maria Konrad is bringing “Phrenetic” dance to the Philadelphia Flower Show. Philly Live’s Sheila Watko gets the scoop on the live performance.

With two major events in the same weekend, the international arts scene signaled it has no intention of letting yet another year get canceled by Covid.  

Philly Live’s Sheila Watko finds out details about how Twirl dance studio in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, teamed up with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Dance Medicine program to make sure young dancers can advance safely while staying on “Pointe.”

Pennsylvania Ballet’s digital spring season, “Strength. Resilience. Beauty.” features newly filmed productions of classic ballets, world premieres, and principal solo performances.

The Pennsylvania Ballet is bringing the beauty of dance to your device. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to ballet artistic director, Angel Corella, about the highlights from the digital season.

The Chocolate Ballerina Company has a mission of serving dancers and people of color in underserved communities. Founder Chanel Holland talks to Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle about an upcoming workshop.

Misty Copeland inspired the next generation of Black girls as the first Black woman to be named a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. In a wide-ranging interview with LX News host Tabitha Lipkin, she talked about the people who have inspired her — from Raven Wilkinson, who was the first Black ballerina to dance in an all-white company...

“A Night at the Ballet,” is a free streaming event that premieres on Thursday. The event, filmed in a small New York theater, will treat ballet-starved fans to dancers from America’s top companies performing excerpts of classical ballets like “Romeo and Juliet, “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quixote.”

With families wondering how they will celebrate the holidays during coronavirus shutdowns, the Hill-Stead Museum and Ballet Theatre Company have partnered to bring The Nutcracker to life with a costume exhibition and ballet performances in a life-sized snow globe.

Choreographer Robbie Fairchild talks to Philly Live’s Sheila Watko about BalletX’s virtual 15th anniversary celebration that took ballet to Longwood Gardens.

The coronavirus has hit one part of the arts and entertainment world especially hard, and that’s performances of “The Nutcracker.”

Anthony Madu, 11, was invited to study ballet with the best dancers in the world after a viral video of him leaping and pirouetting in the rain-soaked streets of Lagos, Nigeria, caught the attention of the American Ballet Theatre.

When the coronavirus pandemic shut down theaters and stages across the area, performance artists were forced to be creative. Philly’s BalletX has found a way to take their 15th season online. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to founder Christine Cox about the plans.

Thirty-two dancers from 14 countries have performed a ballet for a virtual audience to benefit the struggling dance community