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 ...

Discover how one writer is healing her relationship to her body and reconnecting with the joy of dance in a new anti-perfection ballet class. I was nervous entering my first ballet class in more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

I returned to work to fund my son's ballet training, but the job became more than income and it reignited my sense of ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It might have become a hobby—a once-or ...

I felt deeply guilty after forgetting my daughter's ballet viewing, and she was inconsolable. I called my own mom for perspective and solace. She helped us reframe this mistake as a lesson in empathy ...