Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools ...

At Studio A in Los Angeles, Diane Kravif, 75, stands at the barre with pin-straight posture. Pink slippers cover her feet, and her silver bob is pushed back with a headband. Watching her tendu and ...

The ballet look is in vogue. “Balletcore” — think tulle, leggings, leg warmers etc. — can be seen on runways with "freaky tutus" and in department stores with Miu Miu’s popular $1,000 flats, on TikTok ...

Dance and fitness trainer Kaley Hatfield shows us how to do ballet barre at home in Yahoo Life’s fitness series, “Take 5.” If you don’t have a barre, no problem. All you need is a chair for stability.

Classes for ‘silver swans’ can help you improve balance and find joy. Credit...Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Times Supported by By Dorie Chevlen Photographs by Magdalena Wosinska At Studio A in ...

Olivia Bell remembers the first time she saw Black ballet dancers as a child at a performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Fort Worth. Seeing Black ballerinas on stage with flesh tone tights to ...

The ballerina, who rose from the slums of Rio to the world stage, wants to change the way we think ballerinas should look Brazilian dancer Ingrid Silva knows she doesn't look like your so-called ...

The clock hands are pointing to 1:30 p.m. in Lincoln Fundamental School's gym. Fourth-grader Lincoln Mayes and 25 other boys in grades 4 and 5 are standing in their stocking feet as they wait for ...

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Olivia Bell is an alum and mentor for Brown Girls Do Ballet who says her mentors and the community she developed through the program helped in her journey from growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area ...