We’re on a wild goose chase looking for Carlos Acosta. The Cuban-born ballet star, who has just turned 51, is not at the stage door of London’s Sadler’s Wells, where his Cuban dance company ...

As a young boy, Acosta was into disco and break-dancing with his friends; he didn’t start ballet training until about 9 years old, but he soon advanced to the very top of the dance world against ...

Today’s subject Carlos Acosta is currently living his theatre Life as the Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet. He ...

In 1989, Ariel Serrano, then 17, and Carlos Acosta, 15, were selected from among their peers at the Cuban National Ballet School to spend a year dancing in Italy as part of a cultural exchange.

Acosta was the first black principal dancer at the Royal Ballet in 2003. Has the industry become more inclusive since then? “Things have got much better all over the world,” he says.

The story of Acosta's own ascent to legend status would itself make for riveting ballet: The 28-year-old dancer was born in Havana, in a poor household where, he explains, "there was never any ...

A top ballet director has said dancers 'have to watch their shape' - after pupils at prestigious schools claimed they were encouraged to lose weight by their teachers. Carlos Acosta, 51 ...

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky's festive ballet "The ...

The ballet world has changed dramatically since Acosta exploded onto the European scene in the 1990s. For one thing, more dancers of colour are pushing up through ballet’s ranks. Misty ...

Carlos Acosta, a longtime dancer with The Royal Ballet and now director of the Royal Birmingham Ballet, returns to the stage to perform “On Before,” a tribute to his mother, for a Sarasota ...