A Pennsylvania pointe shoe company lost everything in a warehouse fire. U.S. trade policy is making starting over even harder ...

Two dancers teamed up with fellow Hopkins master's students to create a smart toe pad and ankle band designed to help prevent ...

Although ballet has diversified and changed over the decades, many ballerinas of color still struggle to find pointe shoes and tights to match their complexion. Williams said last month marked the ...

LONDON—Ballet dancers ... with their shoes than most people. So do ballet fans. When Marie Taglioni, among the first dancers to perform on the tips of her toes, or en pointe, had her final ...

Since pointe shoes have to match the dancer’s skin tone in order to maintain the line, Act’pointes are rendered functionally unusable for dancers with darker skin tones. Some ballet companies only ...

When scrolling through the substantial offering of emojis on Apple products, users will find a pink — and only pink — pair of pointe ballet shoes. Misty Copeland wants to change that.

Dancers at the New York City Ballet go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes each year. That's because traditional pointe shoes break down after only a few wears. All of them come from Freed ...

After 60-plus years, Robin Williams, a ballet dancer, recently experienced a first: performing in pointe shoes that actually matched her brown skin tone. Williams reflected that early in her ...

Not only did he want to dance freely. But he also wanted to do it all with a certain type of shoe that was not immediately in his grasp—the pointe ballet shoe. "I remember someone left and the ...

The difference was what Peck wore on her feet as she made and rehearsed the work: pointe shoes. Wendy Whelan, City Ballet’s associate artistic director, said that in her nearly 40 years with the ...