Cardio, schmardio. For the ultimate body and mind workout, some harried adults are pirouetting back in time — and signing themselves up for ballet class. Whether it’s curious first-timers looking to ...

Sometimes you can find new interests in old places. For me, it was discovering a love of ballet more than 15 years after I first started training. Let me explain. I took ballet lessons from second ...

Dancers perform a scene from "Swan Lake" at the Westside School of Ballet adult showcase at New Roads School in Santa Monica in August. (Zoe Cranfill / Los Angeles Times) For the record: 11:40 a.m.

It's not impossible for adults to learn ballet. Broadly speaking, though, dancers tend to start in the low-single-digit age range, with professionals usually hanging up their pointe shoes in their 30s ...