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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many times do you remind your children to sit up straight, say please and thank you? We show you how the art of ballet can help children learn those valuable life skills that are so critical for ...

“Don’t apologize,” said my ballet teacher. “We do enough of that outside of class.” It was a week into adult beginning ballet at Greenwood’s American ...

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 ...

The first time Ashton Edwards tried dancing on pointe, it felt like coming home. “It was just like magic. It felt beautiful on pointe. I felt like I could dance forever.” Edwards, originally from ...

A group of students at the "Casa de Cultura de Playas" in Tijuana is proving that it's never too late to learn new things. A ballet workshop for elderly people is part of the "To Move Life" program, ...