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Tamara Pagan beams with pride as she watches her 3-year-old daughter Ava Corlette dance around their home. As if spending the majority of her short life navigating lockdowns and quarantines hasn't ...

Lluvia Cervantes never took her eyes off of her teacher, Erin McMahon, at the Central West Ballet studio during ballet class earlier this month. Lluvia is 9 years old and has autism, and for the first ...

After a powerful performance of the “Gentle Nutcracker,” a sensory-friendly performance of the holiday show designed to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals, the Boulder Ballet decided to ...

About 30 minutes before my son's first, and so far only, ballet class, I was desperately sifting through the toddler section at Target. While the ballet outfits for little girls are plentiful and ...

“I think this is a memory these kids will have forever," the studio owner said. — -- It’s safe to say these Philadelphia dads were sore after taking ballet class with their children. “I think ...

Jae'Auna Brantley likes to round her hands up toward the sky and plié — a true ballerina. When Usher or the Korean-pop group BTS plays, she can't help but slip in a little shake of the hips or show ...

Isabella Velasquez, middle, plays Marie in the Sacramento Ballet’s Nutcracker in the dress rehearsal in Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Daniel Kim [email protected] The ...