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.

CINCINNATI -- It’s a warm, summer evening in Oakley. After a challenging barre workout, a couple dozen women wearing capri pants and colorful tank tops are streaming out of Pure Barre on Madison Road.

Whether you’ve been glued to a desk chair, your favorite armchair or the couch, you’ve probably been doing an awful lot of sitting — and, as a result, your workout routine might be slipping. That’s ok ...

Maddie Kring took ballet when she was a little girl. So when she came across a particular workout program at Full Throttle Fitness Factory in Shillington, it piqued her interest. The class, called ...

With the pandemic forcing many people to adapt their fitness routines to the confines of their homes, exercise typically done in class settings — like spinning or barre — has gone virtual. But often ...

I half expect to relive a combination of "Flashdance" and high school drill team when I head to Pure Barre one weekday morning. Because that's likely not the case, I leave the leg warmers and bodysuit ...

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 Bar Method in downtown Boulder, offer ...

Day, who has led PBT’s Dance and Fitness program since 2020, says she cares deeply about giving the adult division room to ...

Barre workouts are a little ballet, combined with dance, yoga or Pilates. Cleaves Rothacker’s version of barre fitness in Lancaster County has proven so popular at her downtown Lancaster Move It ...

When Natalie Portman finally achieves perfection onstage in "Black Swan," it's hard to know whether to applaud or pity her. And who could leave inspired to take up ballet after seeing the Syosset ...

Hermosa Beach’s Alysia Grabiner owns three Bar Method studios in Los Angeles and taught at one in Hermosa Beach in the past, but when the coronavirus pandemic shut down the studios in March, she went ...