The students take their spots at the barre. The mirrored wall reflects 21 dancers, elegant in their leotards, tights and ballet slippers, a few opting for gym shorts or sweats. Barres line up in ...

WASHINGTON — It seems fitness buffs can’t get enough of barre; studios are popping up all over D.C. But if you have yet to step up to the barre, you need to know a few things if you want to make a ...

In ballet-inspired fitness classes, a little goes a long way, with small movements promising big results. Two new studios, Pure Barre in Cherry Creek and The Bar Method in downtown Boulder, offer ...

Joy’s physique is a testament to the fact that power doesn't require brute force. By adopting the precise, core-centric ...

Carrie Rezabek Dorr, Pure Barre’s founder and a professional dancer and choreographer, spent many years teaching dance, Pilates and other types of group fitness classes, before she opened her first ...

Ballet dancers have perfected their grueling workouts for centuries but barre fitness started in the 1940s when a dancer combined her ballet bar conditioning with her rehabilitation of a back injury.

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Christine Peterson was only 7 years old when her ballet dreams were dashed by feedback that was, to say the least, pointed. Her mother had been taking her to lessons in Vancouver for about a year, and ...

This article was first published on Aug. 25, 2018. I humbly admit, as my entire body aches, that I underestimated ballet barre fitness. I expected Regina's Fit Project (formerly Project Barre Studio) ...

The temperatures are soaring outside but on a recent weekday morning, members of Synchro Swim Ontario have skipped the pool to stand in ballet's first position in a stuffy room inside the Etobicoke ...

It's not Pilates core training and it's not barre lower body/core workouts, both of which have elements of ballet dancing. Instead, Nashville is about to get its first ballet fitness studio, Body & ...