In a new documentary for W, director Danielle Levitt captures the dancers of the Hiplet Dance Company, a dance movement officially founded by Homer Bryant in 2009 that blends ballet on pointe with hip ...

Nia Parker has been a dancer since the age of 4. Her grace and skill are a reflection of focus and hard work. She is part of the Hiplet Ballerinas who had a video go viral as they demonstrated a genre ...

Earlier this year, a video of Black ballerinas dancing to hip-hop on pointe went viral. Those girls study “Hiplet” under instructor Homer Bryant at The Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center. Even though ...

Dancer Nia Towe had been keeping a secret for months. Last week, Towe, who was born and raised in Chicago, settled in to watch an episode of reality television with her family and boyfriend. On-screen ...

Ballerinas dancing en pointe, plus modern hip-hop choreography and music, equals the phenomena that is Hiplet Ballerinas. The Hiplet Ballerinas bring their unique blend of classical pointe technique, ...

Hiplet is the newest contemporary dance style, which combines ballet with hip-hop. And it started in Chicago! Two months after a video of the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center (CMDC) hiplet dancers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Chicago, Homer Hans Bryant experiments with a genre-bending style called “hiplet,” a mix of hip-hop and ballet. For his dancers ...

Hip-hop ballet isn’t something brand new. Anyone who’s watched Save The Last Dance will be well versed in how ballet can be fused with street dance (even if it’s murdered by Julia Styles). But one ...

Who has the edge in a head-to-head strength challenge: U.S. Marines or elite rock climbers? In this video, the two groups go ...