Pliés, relevés, and sauté jumps don’t just look graceful, the ballet moves also lengthen and strengthen muscles and burn calories. Ballet-inspired classes like Pure Barre, Bar Method, and Balletone ...

Signing up for your first ballet class might feel like learning a foreign language—and that’s because it basically is! Not only is there a lot of new terminology to wrap your head (and feet) around, ...

In Ballet West’s exercise class, Utahns discover their inner ballet dancer and forget about looking foolish Becoming a ballet student as an adult is: a) A good way to exercise. It improves posture and ...

Ballet Fitness classes are recommended to those who wish to build solid technical foundations in ballet, stay in shape, as well as prevent and recover from injuries. This class focuses on floor barre ...

Angelie Melzer gazes at her six students, as they stand next to the dimly lit stage in their ballet garb. She walks among them in their held ballet positions. She pats underneath arms, wedges her hand ...

The instructions were simple: From first position, demi plié twice, grand plié once, tendu to the right into second position, repeat the pliés, tendu into third position, repeat the pliés, tendu into ...

BYU students in Shayla Bott's ballet class practice their positions and exercises. (Whitney Finuf) Dancers may struggle with eating disorders and perfectionism, but dancing environments can play a ...

Tracy Somani and her classmates exercise toe extensions in a Philadelphia Ballet class for adults who have never danced ballet before. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

It’s ballet, but not quite as you know it: As well as the usual ballet attire, these dancers are also wearing their babies. In a new fitness craze sweeping America, Babywearing Ballet is being billed ...