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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From writer/director Sarah Adina Smith (Hanna, Legion, Room 104) and based on the novel Bright Burning Stars by A.K. Small, the drama Birds of Paradise is set at a prestigious ballet school in Paris, ...

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 ...

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: ...