Michaela Mabinty DePrince, the trailblazing ballerina who exemplified rising above adversity with poise, grace, and tenacity, ...

The 10-day festival at City Center opened with a program of works by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck and Andrea Miller.

Black Ballerina Michaela Deprince is no longer with us, she passed away this week. And while teh family is not speaking out ...

She rose to prominence as a young Black dancer, graduating from American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2012 and appearing on "Dancing with the Stars" when she was just 17.

Despite some of her teachers not believing that a Black girl could become a professional ballet dancer, DePrince defied expectations — becoming a principal dancer, or in other words, a prima ...

"It's a rare thing when one can sense an entire theater audience holding its breath at what is happening on the stage in ...

DePrince, from New Jersey via Sierra Leone, was featured as a teen dancer in the documentary 'First Position' and danced in ...

They were honoring two women (Alice Grant and Bettye Robinson) who were first Black dancers in Columbus, classical ballet dancers who opened schools here. They told their stories of how hard it ...