In this ninth installement of our "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature the Piti Duo, a winning male ballet duo from Hanover, Germany, a performance by Royal Ballet Dancer Stanisław Węgrzyntitled "The Body Letter" as well as a performance by Robert Fairchild and Travis Wall at the Dancer R

In 1991, students at Indiana University founded dance marathon in the memory of Ryan White, a fellow student who passed away from HIV/AIDS. The program now spans North America, benefiting hundreds of hospitals and countless kids in the United States and Canada. Dance marathons have become a traditio...

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-...

n this thirty-fourth installment of Male Ballet Dancers we showcase the work of talented and renown dancer Artemy Belyakov principal dancer at the Bolshoi ballet. Born in Tver. In 2010 graduated from The Moscow State Academy of Choreography (class of Ilya Kuznetsov) and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Com

In this thirty first episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we showcase Elisha Nielsen and Amar Smalls during a training exercise as well as cuban Jorge Barani "having fun in the studio." We also include superstars Kimin kim from South Korea and Japanese ballet dancer Tetsuya Kumakawa and a former princi

In this special episode of our "Male Ballet Dancers" series we introduce Mathieu Ganio & Stéphane Bullion dancing at the Opera Gernier in Paris. The two male performance represents a dance for liberte and equality where two same sex dancers perform together.

Jovani Furlan is a Brazilian ballet dancer. He joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2017. In 2019, he left the company to join the New York City Ballet as a soloist, and became a principal dancer in 2022.

Fire Island Dance Fesitval 16, produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, raised over $260,000.
FIDF 16 performers included: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Camille A. Brown, Fabrice Calmels & Erica Lynette Edwards (Principal, Joffr...

n this twenty-seventh episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we introduce Paul Marke from France performing a man variation of "Swan Lake" choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. We also present "Self Doubt," a male duet performance by Jan Ravnik (Slovenia) and Sam McWilliams (Oregon USA). With a history dating

After SERGEI POLULIN graduated from the Kyiv Choreographic Academy, he joined the British Royal Ballet School at the age of 13 in 2003, sponsored by the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.Polunin has received numerous awards, including the Prix de Lausanne and Youth America Grand Prix in 2006, and in 2007 w...