When we think of ballet, we often imagine lithe, lean, long-limbed ballerinas gracefully and effortlessly performing demanding technical feats. However, maintaining a body that fulfills this aesthetic ...

Christopher Wheeldon has a guilty secret. “I grew up listening to Phantom of the Opera,” he says. “As an 11-year-old, those big blockbuster musicals were everything. Seeing Starlight Express: it was ...

Colleen Werner tried lots of sports in school — including t-ball, softball, basketball and cheerleading — but her true love has always been dance. She remembers dancing around the house as a toddler, ...

The idealized look in the 1980s was muscular and toned (with leg warmers). That morphed into the skeletal “heroin chic” of the ’90s. More recently, a curvier physique with a big buttocks has dominated ...

The ideal ballet body type boils down to women with large eyes, a long neck, long legs, flexible back, flat chest, lean muscles, lots of hip rotation and a high instep. This doesn’t even include the ...

Never before have humans lived such a disembodied existence. Many of us spend our days hunched over the computer, ignoring our body until our limbs go numb. As of 2011, only about 20 percent of ...

A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work in which intentionally cumbersome garments lead and the dancers’ ...

The Red & Black publishes opinions from a number of contributors and staff columnists. Their opinions do not reflect the opinions of the editorial staff. The editorial staff is in no way involved with ...

Like clothing, body types can go in and out of fashion — but this might be the first time a person’s figure is trending due to the rise of certain prescription drugs. Since GLP-1s like Ozempic and ...