The classic barre workout was created in 1959 by German dancer Lotte Berk. After injuring her back, she decided to craft an ercise program that combined her physical therapy with ballet technique to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Looking to tone, sculpt and stretch the body? Barre may be the perfect workout for you. The ...

With all the trendy barre studios popping up everywhere, it may seem like ballet-inspired workouts are just the latest fitness fad. But in fact, barre classes have been around since the '50s, when ...

Barre ballet classes are a firm favourite in the fitness scene for their ability to combine the grace and elegance of classical dance and Pilates with the rigour of strength training. As an ...

I used to watch the spectacle on weekend mornings: legging-clad women, hair high atop their heads, bounding out of the barre studio and heading, presumably, for brunch. I was confident I was more ...

Gold Barre, a figure skating-inspired class created with Olympian Tara Lipinski, launches this spring. If 2015 was the year of the barre studio, 2016 may be the year that the workout finally chassés ...

I’ve been a runner for more than 30 years, but I’m something of a serial monogamist when it comes to fitness classes. (At the moment, I’m hooked on Ken Tietjen’s classes at my neighborhood Pilates ...

I walked into the advanced beginner class at the Washington School of Ballet Saturday morning feeling like a student returning to school a day after playing hooky: anxious. Timid. A tad guilty. I’ve ...