CEBU, Philippines - My ballet workouts are not meant to make participants into ballet dancers or even to be able to dance ballet. What it does is similar to a fitness regimen, only that there is no ...

It's a cold January night and I haven't so much as glanced in a full-length mirror since last summer, so the idea of entering a chilly swimming pool with a group of nubile aquatic ballerinas isn't ...

Many girls who spent extracurricular hours perfecting their pliés went on to drop ballet, unready or unwilling to trade in their slippers for pointe shoes. With their grade-school ballerina years ...

As a child, I wanted to be a ballerina when I grew up. I dreamed of a world filled with pink tights and pointe shoes. I obsessively collected books of ballet stories. But sadly, I got boobs instead of ...

I spent most of my teenage years in a dance studio, and while I hung up my ballet shoes 10 years ago, dance-inspired workouts always excite me, because I know that dance training is one of the best ...