This year’s Rising festival will bring public dance classes to an architectural gem for the first time in more than 40 years.

Search “black ballerinas” online and you will be offered shoes, which doesn’t say much for the racial diversity of classical dance in today’s Britain. Black male dancers, even at principal level, are ...

I never expected to keep it this long. But if anything, it has become more useful the older and more energetic he gets — to cushion him while he plays and to dampen the sound of his jumping, stomping, ...