1. By Katherine Cortez And Maria Chaul

2. What is Ballet Beautiful? Ballet Beautiful is ballet-inspired fitness training for every woman, based on targeted exercises and stretches to sculpt and tone sleek ballet muscles. Ballet Beautiful provides techniques to build and maintain the beauty, strength, and grace of a ballerina.

3. Mary Helen Bowers Professional Ballerina and founder of Ballet Beautiful Born in 1979 in Charlotte, North Carolina Began studying as a full scholarship student at the School of American Ballet in Manhattan at age 15 Invited to join New York City Ballet at age 16 Danced for 10 years with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center and on stages all over the world Graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature Bowers helped train actress, Natalie Portman for the Oscar winning performance in the 2010 movie, Black Swan.

4. How To Take Classes Ballet Beautiful classes are accessible worldwide. There are Group Classes online and also Private Classes located at their flagship Soho studio in Manhattan and worldwide via Ballet Beautiful Live. You can purchase a DVD Workout Video either on the Ballet Beautiful website or where ever they are sold.Ballet Beautiful website  There are also customized workouts that are designed to fit into your daily life, with a flexible schedule created just for you.

5. The Ballet Beautiful Store The Ballet Beautiful store has varieties of their workout segments, dance wear, and even DVDs and books.

6. Videos Ballet Beautiful Trailer Ballet Beautiful: Quick Tip - Foam Roller Ballet Beautiful: Quick Tip - The Allegra Workout Black Swan Training

7. Sign Up To sign up all you need is to register on the Ballet Beautiful website

8. Why We Chose Ballet Beautiful It is a great way to help ballerinas and non-ballerinas to get where they want in their abilities of being or becoming a ballerina. It’s a great way to make sure every muscle in your body gets a work out and help maintain them.

9. Question s Who is the founder of Ballet Beautiful? Mary Helen Bowers At what age was the founder invited to join New York City Ballet? 16 What movie did the founder help actress, Natalie Portman, prepare for her role as a ballerina? Black Swan