Instructor: Elizabeth Ross trained in ballet in Florida, Texas and then in Colorado. She received teacher training in the Russian Vaganova Academy syllabus and has been teaching children and adults ...

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 ...

At a ballet barre in Oklahoma City, senior women stand a little taller. They're not just ballerinas — they're Golden Swans. The Oklahoma City Ballet offers beginner and intermediate-level classes ...

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 ...

The training of students is conducted from the classical tradition of Russia’s Kirov Ballet. This regimen nurtures the individually paced progress of students beginning with pre-ballet and progressing ...

"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 ...

Football players do it for balance and agility. Body builders do it to perfect their poses. Moms enroll their daughters to build confidence, posture and coordination. For David Gerson of Melrose, the ...

In a sprawling warehouse space in St. Paul that houses a boxing gym, a pilates studio and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu center, there's an exercise class for older adults that offers something besides ...

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 ...

NEWTON —It was a momentous occasion for 12-year-old Lily Tepe from Sharon. Slowly, she uncapped a tube of lipstick and lightly swiped it across her lips while sitting on a lobby bench waiting for her ...