Lauren Lovette’s on 🔥 and Puma knows it. So in honor of International Women’s Day, the athletic clothing brand featured Lovette in their Do You campaign. The New York City Ballet star appears in the inspiring video with WNBA All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith, where the two talk about their mottos for success and how they’re using […]
Barbie is pretty woke these days. Not only did Mattel introduce a Misty Copeland Barbie doll last year, but now the company is Barbie-ifying another inspiring ballerina: San Francisco Ballet’s Yuan Yuan Tan, the first Chinese dancer to reach principal status in a major Western ballet company. Tan’s doll is part of Mattel’s 2018 Role […]
Happy International Women’s Day, dance friends! It feels more important than ever to celebrate talented female dance artists, who’ve repeatedly revolutionized the field—but who aren’t always given the credit they deserve. The folks at Google decided to celebrate #IWD2017 with a Google Doodle slideshow featuring 13 remarkable women from history. And we give them lots […]
Well, this is one of the best ways we can think of to celebrate International Women’s Day! The wonderful Julie Kent—former American Ballet Theatre principal and, odds are, one of your all-time ballerina idols—has just been named artistic director of The Washington Ballet. And it’s a family affair: Kent’s husband, fellow former ABT principal and […]