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Ballet-inspired workouts are all the rage this year; it’s likely that you know someone who spends time on the barre. Whether she loves Bar Method, Pure Barre, or Baree3, we have the perfect fitness gift for her!

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After letting loose in the animated Gnomeo and Juliet, Emily Blunt gets serious in the Adjustment Bureau as a ballet dancer attempting to thwart destiny. What’s the deal with all these big-screen ballerinas?

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Fitness mashups are key to keeping your fitness routine from becoming stale. Aerobarre, a new hybrid blending boxing with ballet moves, is a new way to get your sweat on while working muscles you never knew existed. Yep, those shy muscles are often the deep, supporting ones that give your tush that lifted look. [...]

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Stirred by Black Swan, Natalie Portman’s dramatic body transformation, and my regular practice of the Bar Method, a ballet and dance based strength training and toning program, I recently ordered my first pair of Capezio shoes since childhood and signed up for ballet.
The class, which was offered at my gym, promised to help me “discover my inner ballerina” with classical ballet technique for beginners and intermediate students. [...]

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A workout is a workout, but how we get our sweat on changes with the times. The recession seems to be influencing our fitness lives, from ditching running shoes to skipping fancy classes. Dance workouts are rising in popularity, and the ancient art of yoga continues to spawn hybrids. [...]

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It’s the movie no one can stop talking about: Black Swan has a twisted story, more than one shocking scene and Oscar-worthy performances by Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. It’s out today in limited release.

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In the new thriller Black Swan, Natalie Portman plays a prima ballerina, a part that she really got into. During filming, director Darren Aronofsky was so concerned with how lean Natalie was getting that he insisted that she eat more: “At a certain point I looked at [Natalie's] back and she was so skinny and so cut – I was like, ‘Natalie, start eating,’ I made sure she had a bunch of food in her trailer. [...]

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If I had my druthers, I’d dance my days away. From ballet to hip-hop, I love to get down, especially when I know I’m burning some calories off my frame. In a ballerina frame of mind, I ventured out to see the new movie Mao’s Last Dancer. [...]

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The world witnessed the beginning of Kelly Osbourne’s weight loss transformation on the TV Series, Dancing With The Stars. Yet it wasn’t until New York Fashion Week that the extent of her weight loss was visible.

The daughter of famed Ozzy Osbourne dropped a whopping 20lbs on the hit show. Now she happily says that she has lost a total of 42lbs. Expecting to put some weight back on after the show it was a pleasant surprise when she continued to shrink.

At just 25, she credits pilates, ballet and eating well. Additionally, she goes against the cardinal rule of not eating before bed. In an interview with Life and Style Magazine she shared her trick, “I’ve learned to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going. They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I’ve found just having a tiny little snack – like half an apple or something – before you go to sleep really helps.”

The former size 14 strutted her new figure throughout New York’s Fashion Week walking in Naomi Campbell’s “Relief for Haiti” fashion show as well as Betsey Johnson’s catwalk.