WASHINGTON -- Dance class was in session at Center City Charter School in Petworth. Budding performers held tight to the wall, to ledges, to whatever they can fashion into a barre for support. The ...

Kat McGinnis was in her living room on a Friday afternoon, reaching her arms out and “swishing” in front of a brown sofa. With her hair pulled away from her face, she smiled at her computer’s webcam ...

"Uh oh, we've got dinosaur hands again," said Claire, the ballet teacher. I look down, and sure enough my hands, instead of graceful and light like butterflies, are curled up next to my torso like the ...

As the world’s population ages, exercise advice targeting older adults has become more popular. Social dance, specifically, has been considered a good exercise for those of increasing age because it ...

On Sunday afternoons, I dance ballet. Every week, I drive 20 minutes to a woman’s house and line up with a small congregation of other bodies alongside a portable barre. The room has been rearranged ...

It was amazing to walk into Sierra Nevada Ballet's Buck Room on Oct. 7 and see it filled with 20 happy, excited and enthusiastic boys! In my 48 years of teaching ballet I have never seen that many ...