If you feel like you dance with two left feet, wait until you meet Robert "Bobby" Barnett, who turned 100 on May 6 and is still in his dancing shoes. Barnett, who grew up in Washington state and was ...

Classical ballet is such a curious art form. It’s something like 500 years old (give or take a century), it’s almost absurdly formal and stylized (I mean, the women dance on the tips of their toes for ...

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 ...

Infinite Steps: Thirty-Three Dancers and Their Lives in Ballet from author and dancer Gavin Larsen (Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life) and Gene Schiavone, former staff ...

LONDON—Ballet dancers have a more intimate relationship with their shoes than most people. So do ballet fans. When Marie Taglioni, among the first dancers to perform on the tips of her toes, or en ...