"To dance well, you have to be self-centered and focused on yourself," says Vanessa Zahorian, 32, a dancer in the San Francisco Ballet since 1997. Since childhood in rural Pennsylvania, dancing has ...

The best ballet flats are comfortable, stylish and easy to wear: No wonder everyone from Audrey Hepburn to Brigitte Bardot has been known to wear the understated-yet-chic shoe, slipping them on for ...

Maintaining good posture is an ongoing struggle for the best of us. And it's not just aesthetics that suffer – poor poise can lead to all manner of aches and pains, and more severe damage in the ...