Cardio, schmardio. For the ultimate body and mind workout, some harried adults are pirouetting back in time — and signing themselves up for ballet class. Whether it’s curious first-timers looking to ...

Before joining the board of directors of A.V.A. Ballet Theatre, the resident ballet company of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, my knowledge of ballet would fit in a thimble. Three quarters ...

Ballet has always had a complicated relationship with gender. In the classical roles we watch on stage, men play princes and heartbreakers who leap high in the air and take up entire stages with large ...

Ballet training begins at the barre, but in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, a kitchen counter and the back of a couch has become a substitute for even America's most elite ballerinas. When the ...

First things first, aficionados of ethereal dance: If you sign up for a free online session with the Los Angeles Ballet, you will not need to rise to your toes by the close of the class. But consider ...

Disney+ has released the trailer for its newest ballet series, On Pointe, a streaming title that will have dance enthusiasts and fans on their toes. Spotlighting the prolific New York City School of ...

to kind of warm my body up and start the day. Two in the middle of the class, to just have that little extra, like, let's break it open and push forward. And then three at the end, where I can do my ...

From hip-hop to breakdance to ballroom, UConn hosts a variety of dance organizations for students to get involved in. For Angelia Prip, however, she was disappointed to hear that there were no student ...

Pointe shoes start out beautiful - satin works of art, each made with a graceful purpose in mind. But behind the beauty are hours of hard work, discipline and pain. The shoes can give a trained ...

When Katie Warren started dancing ballet at 2 years old, she told her mother that she wanted to dance long enough to get the “pretty shoes” — the pale pink satin toe shoes adorned with flowing ribbon ...