"Decades ago, when I was growing up and starting my career as a dancer, the world was very different. [Male] dancers, especially in classical ballet, were subjected to ridicule and overwhelming ...

From risky beginnings at the height of the pandemic, South Florida’s Men Who Dance festival – now in its fourth year – not only survives but thrives despite recent political headwinds in Florida ...

“There’s an aversion to male beauty in this country. We have this idea that beauty has to be defined as feminine,” says Ariel Rose, Miami City Ballet soloist and choreographer. Rose is a founding ...

For the sixth year, Men Who Dance, the all-male dance festival spotlighting 52 performers from 20 countries, returns to Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center for the Performing Arts. But it’s the first ...

When the Inter-American Choreographic Institute (ICI) presented its first-ever Men Who Dance program in November 2020, it sought to explore and challenge ideas of masculinity before a live audience – ...

In 1975, British avant-garde filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey published an essay titled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in which she introduced the concept of the “male gaze.” Academia, art ...

"I wanna be a dancin' man," goes the old song by Harry Warren. But what does it mean to actually be that guy? "If you have a young boy in a family who says 'Hey, I want to take some dance classes', a ...