Here's what I remember about my first barre class: The workout was so grueling it made my muscles twitch as I lay on my back, rhythmically thrusting my pelvis to a sensual cover of Rihanna's "Umbrella ...

Few exercises in the United States have gained as much popularity over the past decade as barre fitness. Founded by a Jewish dancer named Lotte Berk who escaped Nazi Germany shortly before the start ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Women who crave muscle tone but fear bulging biceps are flocking to The Bar Method, a body-sculpting exercise system that purports to whittle dancer-type forms from ...

Choreographer Tanya Becker co-founded Physique 57 after a decade as a Lotte Berk trainer. Her update of the 1950s isometric method combines ballet, Pilates, and weights into an hour of thigh-squeezing ...

Within several weeks of being dismissed from the now defunct Lotte Berk exercise studio on the Upper East Side, Rupa Mehta began teaching classes in a rented space on West 68th Street. Sessions ...