There are sports, and then there are sub-sports. Like surfing and tandem surfing (where a man rides a wave holding a woman on his shoulders so the two can perform gymnastic-like stunts during the ...

Behind the renaissance none of us asked for. Kathryn Wadsworth is dressed as a butterfly. More precisely, the Event Manager at Monarch Mountain Ski resort is in a monarch butterfly costume, made of ...

Before there was freestyle skiing, there was ski ballet, a seemingly lost sport that is making a big comeback online during the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. The sport, formally known as acroski, combines ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. You know that scene in the ski movie Hot Dog where the fierce rivalry between Harkin and ...

The freestyle discipline of ski ballet originated in the 1960s as an expression of creativity on the slopes, trading the thrills and spills of raing for elegant spins and acrobatic flips. With its ...

The sun was breaking through the clouds one day last April as Lara Rosenbaum stood atop a slope at Colorado’s Monarch Mountain. She took in the scene around her: Costumed skiers twirling around, their ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “We brought music to the mountains”: The rebel freestyle form born in the ’70s had a brief Olympic moment. Now it’s experiencing a renaissance online.

Along with moguls and aerials, ballet fell under the umbrella of freestyle. The inaugural FIS Freestyle World Cup took place in 1980. For a while, ski ballet thrived, spreading round the world, ...