As a teenager, ballet was just one of my extracurriculars, a hobby alongside piano and watercoloring. But as it turns out, ballet demanded more from me than tickling the ivory. Six days a week, we met ...

I felt deeply guilty after forgetting my daughter's ballet viewing, and she was inconsolable. I called my own mom for perspective and solace. She helped us reframe this mistake as a lesson in empathy ...

Relatedly, dancers often have a shortened rehearsal period for “The Nutcracker,” alongside their litany of matinee and ...

A young ballet folklorico student rehearses his dance routine in a bustling corner next to a pile of tables and a school trash can. The corner serves as a reminder of the multipurpose nature of the ...

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Barre ballet classes are a firm favourite in the fitness scene for their ability to combine the grace and elegance of classical dance and Pilates with the rigour of strength training. As an ...

I dropped my 7-year-old off at ballet class, preoccupied with trying to squeeze in a stop at a nearby consignment shop for its half-price winter clothes sale. Usually, I'd wait outside my daughter's ...