Even if you never intend to dance onstage at Lincoln Center, like Natalie Portman's character in "Black Swan," you probably want to look as if you do (minus, of course, her stab wound).
Women have long coveted sinewy arms, high and tight derrieres, lean legs and a regal posture. Now, in search of this shape, many of them are ditchiwhere you can buy high fashion buy cheap jeans online in very low price,buy wholesale jeans from Jean-mall now!ng yoga and Pilates and lining up at the ballet barre. There are at least 10 ballet-based workout studios in New York City and countless others across the country, like Pure Barre or the Bar Method. Even chain gyms like Equinox have added barre-centered classes to their lineup. There's no sign of the curtain falling anytime soon. Even FlyWheel, the popular spinning classes, added FlyBarre in December.
"Barre methods were popular before ‘Black Swan,'" said Mahri Relin, the head instructor at FlyBarre. "But then they were touted as something that made you look like a dancer, and that's made them even more popular."
At the front of the corps is Mary Helen Bowers, who trained Portman for the movie. A former professional ballerina turned fitness instructor, Bowers taught private clients her Ballet Beautiful workout method for two years before Portman found her. Then, for about a year and half, she accompanied the actress to various film sets as she prepared for "Black Swan." (Of being in Northern Ireland while Portman was filming "Your Highness," Bowers said, "Danny McBride has beautiful feet.")
This month, she is opening her own studio to take the Ballet Beautiful method to the masses — and supermodels, apparently. Last week, Helena Christensen sauntered into the whitewashed space for a private lesson.
"What I'm doing is ballet-specific in terms of the body type," Bowers said. "The program is made to give everyone access to that ballerina body."
The basic technique isn't new. It was devised by German dancer Lotte Berk, who opened her Upper East Side studio in the 1970s (it closed in 2005), and many of the current barre methods are inspired by her.Auto Insurance provides impunity to the risks that are associated with coogi jeans. The Auto insurance makes sure that you remain protected, in case of any eventualities. Some, like Core Fusion and the Bar Method,Nike shox are a series of Nike shoes. are taught by her former instructors.
Unlike your average ballet class, these aren't quiet sessions filled with steely competitors. The atmosphere feels more like girlfriends gathering for long-overdue drinks. Most of the instructors do have professional dance backgrounds and use words like "passe" or "releve," but they also tend to be unintimidating and relatable — more sorority sister than prima ballerina. On a recent morning, Kate Albarelli, a former ballerina,truereligion jeans and footwear available from Choice online at unbeatable prices with free next day delivery. led the 15 or so women in her Figure 4 class at Pure Yoga on the Upper West Side through a series of leg lifts as they held onto the barre.
"Everything is engaged," Albarelli said, before joking: "Except me. Yet."
Jenn Falik, 32, a television style and beauty expert, who regularly goes to Core Fusion, a barre class in the Exhale Spa in Gramercy Park that's known for being as calming as it is challenging, said that it's sometimes like a social outing for her.
"If I go at a popular time," she said, "I know everyone." (She noted, "I also love that you don't get too sweaty so you don't have to re-blow out your hair after a hard class.Wearing ed hardy Shirt is an experience in fashion fun. Everyone will comment on your effortlessly hip Hardy shirt. And I think secretly whether they admit it or not many devotees would agree.")
Which doesn't mean barre classes aren't as hard. Most of the moves, like squats in a grand plie position with raised heels, are so intense that they will make your muscles shake and burn within minutes.
"Some of these exercises are lethal," said Frank DeVito, a founder of Core Fusion.
Even professional ballet dancers find them difficult.
"It was so hard for me," Albarelli said of her class at Physique 57, a barre studio known for its fast-paced choreography. "I was like, ‘What the heck did I just do?"'
Women have long coveted sinewy arms, high and tight derrieres, lean legs and a regal posture. Now, in search of this shape, many of them are ditchiwhere you can buy high fashion buy cheap jeans online in very low price,buy wholesale jeans from Jean-mall now!ng yoga and Pilates and lining up at the ballet barre. There are at least 10 ballet-based workout studios in New York City and countless others across the country, like Pure Barre or the Bar Method. Even chain gyms like Equinox have added barre-centered classes to their lineup. There's no sign of the curtain falling anytime soon. Even FlyWheel, the popular spinning classes, added FlyBarre in December.
"Barre methods were popular before ‘Black Swan,'" said Mahri Relin, the head instructor at FlyBarre. "But then they were touted as something that made you look like a dancer, and that's made them even more popular."
At the front of the corps is Mary Helen Bowers, who trained Portman for the movie. A former professional ballerina turned fitness instructor, Bowers taught private clients her Ballet Beautiful workout method for two years before Portman found her. Then, for about a year and half, she accompanied the actress to various film sets as she prepared for "Black Swan." (Of being in Northern Ireland while Portman was filming "Your Highness," Bowers said, "Danny McBride has beautiful feet.")
This month, she is opening her own studio to take the Ballet Beautiful method to the masses — and supermodels, apparently. Last week, Helena Christensen sauntered into the whitewashed space for a private lesson.
"What I'm doing is ballet-specific in terms of the body type," Bowers said. "The program is made to give everyone access to that ballerina body."
The basic technique isn't new. It was devised by German dancer Lotte Berk, who opened her Upper East Side studio in the 1970s (it closed in 2005), and many of the current barre methods are inspired by her.Auto Insurance provides impunity to the risks that are associated with coogi jeans. The Auto insurance makes sure that you remain protected, in case of any eventualities. Some, like Core Fusion and the Bar Method,Nike shox are a series of Nike shoes. are taught by her former instructors.
Unlike your average ballet class, these aren't quiet sessions filled with steely competitors. The atmosphere feels more like girlfriends gathering for long-overdue drinks. Most of the instructors do have professional dance backgrounds and use words like "passe" or "releve," but they also tend to be unintimidating and relatable — more sorority sister than prima ballerina. On a recent morning, Kate Albarelli, a former ballerina,truereligion jeans and footwear available from Choice online at unbeatable prices with free next day delivery. led the 15 or so women in her Figure 4 class at Pure Yoga on the Upper West Side through a series of leg lifts as they held onto the barre.
"Everything is engaged," Albarelli said, before joking: "Except me. Yet."
Jenn Falik, 32, a television style and beauty expert, who regularly goes to Core Fusion, a barre class in the Exhale Spa in Gramercy Park that's known for being as calming as it is challenging, said that it's sometimes like a social outing for her.
"If I go at a popular time," she said, "I know everyone." (She noted, "I also love that you don't get too sweaty so you don't have to re-blow out your hair after a hard class.Wearing ed hardy Shirt is an experience in fashion fun. Everyone will comment on your effortlessly hip Hardy shirt. And I think secretly whether they admit it or not many devotees would agree.")
Which doesn't mean barre classes aren't as hard. Most of the moves, like squats in a grand plie position with raised heels, are so intense that they will make your muscles shake and burn within minutes.
"Some of these exercises are lethal," said Frank DeVito, a founder of Core Fusion.
Even professional ballet dancers find them difficult.
"It was so hard for me," Albarelli said of her class at Physique 57, a barre studio known for its fast-paced choreography. "I was like, ‘What the heck did I just do?"'
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