Ballet-inspired workout classes are everywhere these days. But when it comes to sculpting lean muscle, one workout seems to rein supreme (especially with the celebrity set): Ballet Beautiful. So does ...

Maybe it's just spring-cleaning fever, or maybe it's the sobering reality that puffy coats will soon be replaced with nothing-to-hide-behind swimsuits, but everyone—myself included—seems to be on a ...

To gear up for her role as a professional ballerina in Black Swan, Natalie Portman trained with Mary Helen Bowers, a former dancer with the New York City Ballet and founder of the Ballet Beautiful ...

“We are back!” Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson announced at the opening of San Francisco Ballet’s “Nutcracker” opening night Friday, Dec. 10, and from that moment on everything in the production ...

“Because I dieted so much in the past, I just can’t diet again,” says Mary Helen Bowers, fresh off a Ballet Beautiful workout at her whitewashed Soho studio. “It’s something I don’t want to do, and I ...

Early Tuesday morning, I walked down the quiet streets of Soho with my coffee to a classic loft on Greene Street. It was the first step in my latest fitness goal — the pursuit of a long, lean and ...