Backstory: A marine's corps de ballet
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A unique pas de deux: A Soviet ballet star and a medaled ex-marine run a very intense dance school in rural Maine.
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Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost his legs when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together. He's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs and Bluetooth -- the technology that usually brings to mind hands-free cell phones.
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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There are few situations that drive an airman to volunteer to be dressed as a woman and made to dance in public.
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For many dancers life after retirement can be traumatic. But the options are improving.
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When Marine Lt. Alan Zarracina finally did the splits after months of struggling with the difficult pose in yoga class, the limber women around him applauded.
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A young Marine wonders if his superiors will support him if he shoots at perceived threats. An officer worries that civilians look at his Marines with more suspicion. The proud colonel acknowledges that his Corps has lost stature in the public's eyes.
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Dancers in the VÃ­ctor Manuel Ruiz explain the mechanics and the emotions involved in taking a running leap and waiting to be caught.
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The Marine Corps is taking on the role of fashion police.
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Eliot Feld, whose new chamber dance group debuted Friday night at the Joyce Theater, is a choreographer reborn since he was forced to disband Ballet Tech last year.
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Rob Fitz knows the exact moment he decided to run the Marine Corps Marathon.
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While Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theater gets a makeover, its eponymous ballet company steps out of the wings and back into the spotlight, thanks to a daring new boss
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Royal Marines involved in a daring rescue mission in Afghanistan are hailed for their bravery.
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Soldier's tumble experience at a base reflects the biggest challenges and stresses confronting the Guard and Reserve soldiers.
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Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marine's bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
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Esecuzione impeccabile in 'La fille du regiment'
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HOUMA, La., Jan. 10 -- Bradley Bergeron grew up, as they say around here, "way down on the bayou," a sliver of high ground south of town called Upper Little Caillou. Bergeron was no homecoming king, no valedictorian, just a nice kid who blended in with his class. But he was a star on that day last October when the "Black Sheep," this town's National Guard unit, left for Iraq.