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 ...

When I signed up for my first adult ballet class in my 30s, I expected my technique to be rusty, but I didn’t expect to be totally stumped by what to wear. As a kid, my ballet school had a strict ...

When I signed my daughter up for ballet classes at 2-and-a-half, I thought dance would be fun for her. She was a girlie, princess-loving child, and tutus and twirling seemed right up her alley. OK, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I felt deeply guilty after forgetting my daughter's ballet viewing, and she was inconsolable. I called my own mom for perspective ...

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 ...

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Cardio, schmardio. For the ultimate body and mind workout, some harried adults are pirouetting back in time — and signing themselves up for ballet class. Whether it’s curious first-timers looking to ...