Which ballet pointe shoes are best? Ballet shoes can provide you with comfort and protection while you are practicing and performing ballet. Ballet pointe shoes, in particular, are designed ...

Grand Junction poet Suzanne Bronson became fascinated by the connection between a ballerina and her footwear after coming across a collection of autographed dance shoes while she was a student at ...

“Prince’s Little Red Corvette,” reads an email from Michael Halpern, when I ask which song he finds best describes a pair of slippers he recently designed. “It’s about energy, boldness, and the ...

Pointe shoes were ­invented to create the look of a dancer being ethereal and floating across the stage. They can also give you the ability to do intricate fast footwork and turn [easily]. Most ...

Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines" Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as ...

On the third floor of Gerlinger Annex, Natalie Reyes and her nine other dancers leap and create smooth and dynamic movements across the floor with tutu skirts and alongside The Voice Of Spring Waltz ...

Veteran ballerina Misty Copeland wants the community to help her #MakeAPointe. Copeland launched a petition on Sept. 21 to encourage Apple and the Unicode Consortium to expand its skin tone options ...

Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...

SEATTLE — The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle is home to hundreds of students and professional dancers, but one particular student is pushing to evolve opportunities for dancers of all kinds.