It might have become a hobby—a once-or-twice-a-week, “just for fun” activity that I eventually would have replaced with a ...

Sometimes you can find new interests in old places. For me, it was discovering a love of ballet more than 15 years after I first started training. Let me explain. I took ballet lessons from second ...

Discover how one writer is healing her relationship to her body and reconnecting with the joy of dance in a new anti-perfection ballet class. I was nervous entering my first ballet class in more than ...

As a lot of young kids did, I took ballet classes from my toddler years until I graduated college with a degree in dance (focusing mostly on contemporary dance). From ages 15-21 I also taught ballet ...

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 ...

It started, as things often do, in a group chat. We were unpacking our anxieties du jour—dead-end job hunts, relationship strife, the generic existential dread of the year 2018—when our friend Han ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, March 10, after my final plié, my weekly ballet class ended with a quick sanitization session. My instructor Anastasia doled out wipes from a Lysol cylinder so that my fellow students and ...

Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years, according to the Royal Academy of Dance. The trend is driven by a resurgence of ballet-inspired fashion and a desire to ...