A male Japanese dancer took the top prize and his female compatriot grabbed third place in their respective senior divisions of an international ballet competition held Monday in Moscow, sources revealed prior to the official announcement of the results. At the XIII International Ballet Competition ...
A court sentenced a former ballet school student to four years and six months in prison on Monday for cutting off a female ballet instructor's thumb at a ballet studio in Tokyo last year. The Tokyo District Court said 42-year-old Hiroaki Hashimoto prepared his weapon ...
Taisuke Nakao on Saturday won third prize at this year's Prix de Lausanne, a prestigious international competition for young ballet dancers. Koyo Yamamoto, another Japanese dancer, won fourth prize at the 45th annual competition in the Swiss city of Lausanne. Dancers who win the top eight ...
The 15 male ballet students groaned as they strained to do the splits and laughed with relief after their teacher counted to five and let them relax. Once a week, a group of South Korean soldiers near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean ...
A former ballet school student was arrested Wednesday for allegedly chopping off a female instructor's thumb at a dance studio in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, police said. Hiroaki Hashimoto, a 41-year-old chiropractor, admitted to injuring the 24-year-old instructor. "She harassed me by not informing me of ...
Britain's Royal Ballet said Friday that two of its Japanese dancers, Ryoichi Hirano and Akane Takada, will be elevated to principal dancers for the 2016-2017 season starting in September. The male and female pair will be the first Japanese principals at the Royal Ballet since ...
Dancer Hannah O'Neill on Tuesday won the prestigious award for the ballerina category in the Benois de la Danse competition, becoming only the second recipient from Japan to do so. The 23-year-old O'Neill, of New Zealand and Japanese parents, is a premier dancer with the ...
There are few certainties in parenthood, from the ever-changing sleeping habits of babies to the unpredictability of toddler tantrums. One fact, however, can almost always be depended upon. However hard a parent tries to avoid gender stereotyping, almost every little girl will at some point ...
The road to becoming a professional athlete is paved with thorns, but there's more trouble than that awaiting three aspiring male ballet dancers in the Norwegian documentary "Ballet Boys." Directed by Kenneth Elvebakk, the film examines the lives of teens Lukas, Syvert and Torgeir, ...
While music fans are still reeling from this year's Fuji Rock Festival (and prepping for Rock in Japan and Summer Sonic ahead), classical music fans are just warming up as the World Ballet Festival is set to hit Tokyo this weekend. Held every three years ...
Misty Copeland on Tuesday became the first African-American female principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in the dance company's 75-year history. Copeland, 32, joined American Ballet Theatre in 2001 and has been a soloist with the prestigious company since 2007. "I am so honored ...
Shoko Nakamura embarked on a challenging journey when she began retraining for ballet performances just one month after giving birth to her son, Joel, in 2011. The dancer, who goes by just her first name when performing, says the physical pain involved in getting ...
