The students take their spots at the barre. The mirrored wall reflects 21 dancers, elegant in their leotards, tights and ballet slippers, a few opting for gym shorts or sweats. Barres line up in ...

Barre can burn, but it’s not just a physical workout. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that it’s a great way of staying mentally sharp and calm (even if your legs are trembling). From ...

WASHINGTON — It seems fitness buffs can’t get enough of barre; studios are popping up all over D.C. But if you have yet to step up to the barre, you need to know a few things if you want to make a ...

Dance and fitness trainer Kaley Hatfield shows us how to do ballet barre at home in Yahoo Life’s fitness series, “Take 5.” If you don’t have a barre, no problem. All you need is a chair for stability.

Ballet dancers have perfected their grueling workouts for centuries but barre fitness started in the 1940s when a dancer combined her ballet bar conditioning with her rehabilitation of a back injury.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In ballet-inspired fitness classes, a little goes a long way, with small movements promising big results. Two new studios, Pure Barre in Cherry Creek and The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Membership has these privileges: The Body Barre’s original location is a small below-street-level studio that focuses primarily on ballet-barre-inspired ...

Carrie Rezabek Dorr, Pure Barre’s founder and a professional dancer and choreographer, spent many years teaching dance, Pilates and other types of group fitness classes, before she opened her first ...

Cindy Sites rested her right hand on the barre, raised her free arm to the sky and bent her knees slightly as a room full of slender, spandex-clad women followed her every graceful step. Keeping her ...

Christine Peterson was only 7 years old when her ballet dreams were dashed by feedback that was, to say the least, pointed. Her mother had been taking her to lessons in Vancouver for about a year, and ...

RICHMOND, Va. — For its third outpost in the Richmond market, a national fitness brand is hopping into Midlothian. Pure Barre, a brand of ballet barre fitness studios, is opening a new location at ...