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How ballet helped us beat the blues: When author ERIN KELLY suffered a breakdown in lockdown, taking up ballet at home was her salvation. And she's not alone - with scores of stressed midlife women learning how to dance their troubles away Author Erin Kelly took up ballet after a breakdown during the first lockdown Scores of stressed midlife women have turned to ballet to dance troubles away There has been a tenfold rise in the number of online dancers since pandemic
How ballet helped us beat the blues Erin Kelly For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The swell of a Tchaikovsky piano score fills the room as I take position and Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva purrs her instructions. ‘Front, back, front, back. Plié, tendu, plié, tendu.’ My calves burn as I rise on to my toes, my arms are still jelly from yesterday’s class, and when I sink into a bend, my thighs ache in long-forgotten places. Sadly, I’m not in a tutu on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre. I’m a 44-year-old woman standing in my kitchen in North Lo...