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| - When I moved to LV from CA this past summer, I was worried that I would not find anything equivalent to my amazing experiences with the Dailey Method and the Bar Method. Sadly, I had cause to be worried. While Pure Barre is definitely a barre workout in the same tradition, it just doesn't compare to the awesomeness of the aforementioned barre workouts. Let me explain...
Pure Barre workouts are extremely repetitive and - if I may be blunt here - very boring. Even if you encounter an instructor as enthusiastic and high-energy as Noelle (and she is the best of all the instructors here), the Pure Barre script is so routinized that it's ultimately a dull experience, especially if you take classes multiple times per week.
In a related vein, the stretching exercises throughout the workout are inadequate compared to other barre workouts and also never vary. Ever. And some of the positions are just simply not good for one's body - and if you try to deviate from them, watch out because you might get barked at by an instructor or two.
My last complaint has to do with the space itself. I find the concrete floors, the thin and dingy-colored industrial carpet, the lack of natural light, and the poor ventilation to all be very unappealing and antithetical to the whole barre workout experience - at least, as I've known it.
All that to say that Pure Barre is a perfectly fine barre workout but it's not great.
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