Every four years, the world's greatest athletes across the winter sport disciplines gather at the Olympic Games to provide a spectacle of sport and sportsmanship. And every four years, we must revisit the lost Olympic art of ski ballet.

Warning: you're about to miss a sport you never knew existed. What is ski ballet, you ask? For the most part, it's probably what you're imagining: a choreographed freestyle ski program full of jumps, spins, and other stunts. Yes, it was set to music.

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 lift tower pads she says were stitched together by “our tower-pad guy.” It’s a befitting look ...

Athletes from all around the world are currently gathered in PyeongChang, South Korea to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. As people watch the athletes compete, some are also reminded of past Olympic glories and bygone times — including when ski ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before slopestyle skiing and the X Games, one sub-species of freestyle skiing ruled them all: ski ballet. You heard right—ballet ... on skis. In the 1980s, fans flocked to see their ...