Isabella Boylston, principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre in New York, teaches easy and effective stretches and exercises to practice during quarantine and working from home.

Ballet dancers possess a covetable mind-body connection. Here's how to stretch your feet, from a ballerina who knows how to do it right. Our editors independently select these products. Making a ...

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Flexibility is an important aspect of overall fitness, and both dance and stretching exercises are commonly used to improve ...

“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and ...

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Even for trained vocalists, the snappy song "America" - from the Broadway musical "West Side Story" - is not so easy to perform. The music is jumpy, with complex cross-rhythms. The lyrics come fast ...