JANESSA TYLER
May 13, 2024
When 24-year-old Angie Gunner graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, she returned to the Central Valley with more than a diploma.
The personal trainer and award-winning dancer had an idea that combined her passion for fitness and ballet — become American Barre Technique-certified instructors with her older sister, 27-year-old Hillery Gunner.
They recently released a 45-minute DVD, Ballet Body, and started teaching barre classes at LiveFit at Copper and Maple avenues.
Barre classes involve a mixture of yoga, Pilates and ballet to give you sculpted, lean muscles by performing slow, controlled movements while improving flexibility and increasing extension.
Although the sisters became ABT-certified instructors less than two years ago, they have been dancers for more than 20 years. In fact, they were born to be dancers. As soon as they were “out of the womb,” Angie said, they were drawn to the beauty and uniqueness of a dancer.
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