Dance History

Portrait of the choreographer Madame Mariquita seated at a carved wooden desk. Three dancers surround her, wearing white tutus. They are Natalia Trouhanova (left), Marthe Lenclud (to Mariquita's rear) and on the right, Regina Badet, leaning over the desk with her left leg raised in an arabesque.

Career

Rediscovering Madame Mariquita, the Prolific Choreographer Who Helped Modernize French Ballet

Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Black History Month

Catherine Devillier: Ballet’s Pioneering Black Russian and LGBTQ+ Soloist

Zita Allen

Black History Month

Julie Felix Broke Barriers Onstage. Now, She’s Guiding the Next Generation.

Lydia Murray

Black History Month

Finding a Forgotten Black Ballerina: Maria Skorsiuk

Lydia Murray

Dance History

Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet's "Constellation Project" Maps the Complex Histories of 6 Dance Pioneers

Zoe G. Phillips

Dance History

A Brief History of Tutus, From the Romantic Era to Today

Caroline Hamilton

Career

Dancewear Through the Decades: 100 Years of Studio Fashion, From the Chiton to the Leotard

Caroline Hamilton

Company Life

A "La Bayadère" for the 21st Century: How Companies are Confronting the Ballet’s Orientalist Stereotypes

Joseph Carman

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