SALT LAKE CITY (KSTU) -- Sounds of pointe shoes can always be heard inside the studios of Ballet West, but you would never guess the person wearing those shoes is 23-year-old Jonas Malinka-Thompson.

With sparkling snowflakes and the first notes of Tchaikovsky’s beloved score, "The Nutcracker'' arrives every December. First State Ballet Theatre’s production of the cherished classic is exceptional.

Dance lovers are in for a unique, hilarious treat this weekend, when the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, performs at the Detroit Opera House on ...