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 ...

Stephanie Taylor, of Pleasant View, exhales during Booty Barre class at Truebarre in North Ogden on Tuesday, August 11, 2015. This isn’t the kind of ballet class your 10-year-old self remembers. Oh, ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

If you've ever been curious about trying a barre fitness workout, our guide below will explain the benefits of ballet barre and how to get started. Barre fitness is a hybrid workout class - combining ...

With the pandemic forcing many people to adapt their fitness routines to the confines of their homes, exercise typically done in class settings — like spinning or barre — has gone virtual. But often ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Recently, while visiting family, I was gently ushered into a ...

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 & ...