With elements of “Black Swan,” “Suspiria” and even “Flashdance,” Amazon’s “Birds of Paradise” tells the story of two young American ballet dancers at a prestigious academy in Paris involved in a ...

Ballet can be an elusive artistic form for those unfamiliar with it, in no small part due to its inaccessibility. Unfortunately, the opaque nature of the field often means that attempts to illuminate ...

The world of ballet is notoriously relentless and competitive, and this is perfectly encapsulated by Amazon Prime's new film Birds of Paradise. Starring Diana Silvers and Kristine Froseth as dancers ...

Early in Jeremy McQueen’s dance film, “Wild: Bird of Paradise,” a young Black man played by lead dancer Khayr Muhammad, is lying in a field in Yonkers, New York, as a song plays in the background: ...

The two main characters of the new ballet drama “Birds of Paradise” make a pact to be friends and win a competition together or not at all – a promise that gets tested mightily as the big day nears.

Magnetic leads Diana Silvers and Kristine Froseth have alluring chemistry as competing and secretive ballerinas in Sarah Adina Smith’s refreshingly grown-up genre entry. If close female friendships ...