Misty Copeland opens up about increasing diversity in the world of ballet and the “why” behind her ballet slipper emoji campaign. Misty Copeland remembers the first time she saw a brown ballet slipper ...

Ballets almost always guarantee a riotous spectacle of sound and movement. With the National Ballet’s remounting of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, you can add a dizzying palette of colour. The show ...

Some may have tried. According to a much-repeated story, a group of ballet fanatics bought, cooked, and ate the slippers of the ballerina Marie Taglioni when she toured to St. Petersburg in 1842. But ...

Misty Copeland remembers the first time she saw a brown ballet slipper. She was 14 years old and performing in Debbie Allen’s iconic “Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” ballet. The brown slippers she saw among ...