If you want to know what love in motion looks like, attend a ballet class for special-needs children at Vero Classical Ballet. Watching these innocent girls dance is fodder for the soul, including ...

Ballet student Shareen Ross, 64, puts on her ballet shoes at Align Method, a non-professional ballet studio for adults. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) At Pico and La Cienega lies a glass door. As ...

Standing a slight 5 feet tall, Jennifer Felkner commands the room when she walks in. Five fidgety 12-year-olds transform into poised, mature young women in her wake. Over the next 75 minutes, ...

As dancers extend backward in arabesque, instructor Katy Pyle reminds them to keep their legs straight — but, Pyle adds, "not too straight." Everyone giggles. Though Pyle's students are performing a ...

HILDA MORALES is a native of New York City. Shortly after her birth, her parents returned to their native Puerto Rico. At the age of nine, she began her formal ballet training with Ana Garcia. At the ...