In women's artistic gymnastics, beam is the third event in the Olympic order. This apparatus is 4 inches wide, 16 ft long and 4.10 ft high. Since the 80s, beams have been covered in leather or suede ...

“Sometimes, when you see dancers, you say, ‘she’s red’ — you can feel her personality, just like a painting,” said Tsai Hsi Hung, director of the Queens Ballet Center/QBC Company in New York, of how ...