Sometimes you can find new interests in old places. For me, it was discovering a love of ballet more than 15 years after I first started training. Let me explain. I took ballet lessons from second ...

It started, as things often do, in a group chat. We were unpacking our anxieties du jour—dead-end job hunts, relationship strife, the generic existential dread of the year 2018—when our friend Han ...

From the time my mom saw me attempting some kind of pirouette at about 5 or 6, I knew I wanted to be a professional ballerina. My first teacher's feedback: "Melissa needs a more serious class." From ...

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 ...

About 30 minutes before my son's first, and so far only, ballet class, I was desperately sifting through the toddler section at Target. While the ballet outfits for little girls are plentiful and ...

I mused in my admissions essay for Barrett, the Honors College about the lessons dancing ballet taught me. That essay was supposed to be a testament to my character, but now it seems like a eulogy for ...

Angela Trimbur's dance classes encourage dancers to rebel against the perfection of ballet and embrace intuitive movement. We chatted with Trimbur to learn more about her inspirations and intentions ...

On Tuesday, March 10, after my final plié, my weekly ballet class ended with a quick sanitization session. My instructor Anastasia doled out wipes from a Lysol cylinder so that my fellow students and ...

I have a toddler who has shown interest in lots of different activities, forms of play and movies in his big three years. Proudly, he is encouraged to express himself however he likes and we follow ...