It is high summer in New York and the forecast this week is for more warm and muggy weather. Nevertheless, in the coming days, everyone who is anyone in the Hamptons, Long Island, will be inside a hot and humid room, kept moist by blasts of steam venting from the ceiling, grasping one end of a long wooden staff and being forced to bend, flex and generally shake a leg.
These are the workout classes hosted by Tracy Anderson, who made her name as a fitness trainer for Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham, and places in said classes are now as sought after as a waterside table at Le Bilboquet or an invitation to a billionaire’s garden party.
By some accounts, such has been
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