“I took the Ballet Body Barre class for the first time yesterday. I will return and recommend the studio wholeheartedly. The space is beautiful, clean, well ventilated, full of light; the changing area and bathrooms are immaculate. Bravo — this is a refreshing change from other dance studios, both uptown and downtown… The instruction (by Roberta Senn, the director of the school) was clear, calm, and correct. This is a good place to learn, whether you are coming back to the barre with extensive background, as I am, or if you are a newbie beginner: Roberta keeps you grounded in fundamentals and she adapted the class to the different levels of experience of the various people present. The Ballet Body Barre class is differentiated — it is 25 minutes of stretching on the floor, which felt great, and the rest of it was a true ballet barre including standing stretches and a few dance-y moves in the center and across the floor. The way it’s taught, it is not beyond anyone’s ability and still a valuable reintroduction to technique. The emphasis is on the exercises which create long, lean dancers’ muscles. These stretches are the antidote to all those cycling and sculpting classes, where I might burn a lot of calories or build muscle, but with no attention to length, grace and beautiful carriage. Ballet is an art; it gives you a quality of movement noticeably different from other classes. This school makes the art accessible.”