For those seeking a more structured workout, Barre3 offers ballet-inspired barre classes. This full-body workout focuses ... available on YouTube and a DVD, you can enjoy a one-hour class that ...

In an exclusive essay, 'Maya & Natasha' author Elyse Durham breaks down how learning ballet as an adult brought her body and ...

A world-famous ballet school has agreed a legal settlement with a woman who claimed she developed an eating disorder as a result of body-shaming while studying there. Ellen Elphick, who was a ...

Body-shaming of aspiring dancers by some of the world’s most prestigious ballet schools is worse than anything experienced in elite sport, a leading lawyer representing affected performers has ...

Male teachers would come up to me, whispering within inches of my ear that I had the “perfect ballet body”—until I didn’t. In front of entire classes, they took to pointing out my flaws ...

Cry sorrow, sorrow, but let the good prevail”. The refrain of Aeschylus’s chorus near the start of the Oresteia is alive and ...

A leading lawyer representing dancers making body-shaming claims against ballet schools has said that the alleged abuse they have suffered is worse than anything he has seen in the elite sporting ...

Male teachers would come up to me, whispering within inches of my ear that I had the “perfect ballet body”—until I didn’t. In front of entire classes, they took to pointing out my flaws—my flat feet, ...