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 ...

In this florid drama streaming on Amazon, two contestants for a prestigious dance award stop at nothing to prevail. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

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 ...

Welcome to the lesser bird of paradise show! With a backdrop of lush vegetation, this strikingly beautiful bird is putting on a display of his life. You can have a front row seat by taking a look at ...

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 ...

Devan Coggan (rhymes with seven slogan) is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Most of her personality is just John Mulaney quotes and Lord of the Rings references. "We really wanted to lean into ...

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: ...

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 ...

Tap dancing birds, shuffling spiders, and wiggling honeybees; dancing is not just a human phenomenon. Many types of animals show off their moves for a variety of different reasons. By far the most ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Birds of Paradise, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. For the first hour of Birds of Paradise, a new drama written and directed by Sarah Adina Smith ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The party starts at Bird of Paradise tonight. The new Ohio City tropical dance club and cocktail lounge opens on Friday with a grand opening celebration that’s set to continue on ...