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 ...

The Royal Ballet School’s push for inclusivity—by including plus-size dancers and same-gender pairings—sparked a heated debate online Some welcomed the idea, saying, “dance is for everybody to enjoy,” ...

“If everyone knew how physically cruel dancing really is, nobody would watch,” said Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assoluta of The Royal Ballet. “Only those people who enjoy bull fights.” From The ...

A world-famous ballet school has agreed a legal settlement with a woman who claimed she developed an eating disorder as a result of body-shaming while studying there. Ellen Elphick, who was a student ...

I grew up during the golden age of the Canada Fitness Test, a government program designed in the early 1970s to promote and encourage physical activity among seven- to 18-year-olds. Noble intentions, ...