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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences takes you on a journey to the rainforest of New Guinea and the land of the exotic "birds of paradise." A big component of the ...

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 ...

Few art forms have inspired filmmakers as much as ballet: Over the decades, the ballet movie has practically become a film genre unto itself, ranging from campy teen classics like Center Stage to ...

Mating dances are not unusual in the bird kingdom, but the displays put on by birds of paradise are mesmerizing. The male bird in the above clip is doing his best to impress a female, and the display ...

Travel to New Guinea this spring and follow a real-life adventure to discover exotic birds-of-paradise, an elegant example of extreme evolution, in the highly interactive exhibit Birds of Paradise: ...

Films that portray the brutality behind the beauty of ballet have become a subgenre. From the Archers’ romantic and tragic melodrama “The Red Shoes” to Dario Argento’s gleefully witchy giallo ...