Street Cleaner Becomes Professional Ballet Dancer at 63, Is Living His Best Life
A 63-year-old Chinese man who only started learning ballet a decade ago has gone viral on social media as a living example that you are never too old to follow your dreams. Liu Ziqing has been a fan of ballet for as long as he can remember. He fell in love with it as a […]
South Korean Soldiers Take Ballet Lessons to Relieve Stress
Guarding the border with North Korea is a very stressful job for the South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas, but they recently found a very unconventional way to unwind – taking ballet lessons. Once a week, the young soldiers of the Koran army’s army’s 25th Division switch their heavy […]
Meet the Plus-Size Male Dancer Challenging Ballet Stereotypes
American ballet dancer Erik Cavanaugh is proving to the world that plus-size performers can be just as agile and graceful as their slim counterparts. His Instagram is filled with photographs and videos of himself performing ballet and other contemporary dance routines. He hopes to appear in music videos and on the Ellen Show, and his […]
Brazil’s Ballet School for the Blind
Reports of visually impaired people performing regular activities with finesse are not new. However, such stories never cease to amaze us. The resilience and confidence displayed by some of the blind leave us awestruck, and sometimes the blind are even able to do things that people with normal vision are not. Dance is one such […]
Hundreds of Ballerinas Set Pointe Standing World Record
Hundreds of ballerinas of all ages gathered on Monday, in Central Park, New York, to set a new world record for standing on pointe. Led by a desire to leave their mark on the world of ballet dancing, 241 ballerinas from New York’s dance school attempted to set a new Guinness world record, by standing […]