Just because Halloween has passed doesn’t mean your dreams of becoming a ballerina are left in the dust. A local ballet instructor — with tons of experience both on and off the stage — is hosting a ...

Get wellness tips, workout trends, healthy eating, and more delivered right to your inbox with our Be Well newsletter. If I could go back in time and do it over again, I’m not sure I would have ever ...

"Uh oh, we've got dinosaur hands again," said Claire, the ballet teacher. I look down, and sure enough my hands, instead of graceful and light like butterflies, are curled up next to my torso like the ...

I’m not a real ballerina, and I’m not a little girl, so I’d walked by the ballet studio for years without ever thinking about taking a class. Even while I was reading about the history of dance and ...

I walked into the advanced beginner class at the Washington School of Ballet Saturday morning feeling like a student returning to school a day after playing hooky: anxious. Timid. A tad guilty. I’ve ...

AS A KID, I had a few years when I tried to be a ballerina. I didn’t have the flexibility, nor the grace, but I do think ballet trained me out of a general clumsiness. The modern fitness world likes ...

It was a week into adult beginning ballet at Greenwood’s American Dance Institute (ADI), and a student had let out a knee-jerk apology for a small error during ...

If you’ve ever taken a dance class, you know that it keeps your body and mind challenged, disciplined, focused, and energized. No matter if you’re doing time steps in tap shoes or pliés at the ballet ...