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New York City Ballet dancers go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes a year. That's because traditional ones break down after only a few wears.

L ike most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent ...

Besides the stage show, awards and dinner—there were the pointe shoes. These couture ballet shoes are part of the Pointe Project. They’re being auctioned off until 9 pm ET today to help ...

Ballet Black employs only black and Asian heritage dancers and Shades Dancewear has created a wide range of colours within ...

I'm a corps de ballet member with the New York City Ballet. Every dancer is trying to make their pointe shoe a part of them, so they wanna mold it to their foot as much as possible. So there's a ...

Many people still think that contemporary dance is Swan Lake, only the ballerinas wear chitons - not tutus - and demi-pointe instead of pointe shoes. They're wrong. Nevertheless, contemporary ...

To be a ballet dancer, one must also be a seamstress. Once graduated to pointe shoes, a ballerina also takes on the routine ...

Making pointe shoes for ballet dancers is a skill held by very few across the UK – and there is only one producer left in London. Freed of London, based in Hackney, has been making pointe shoes ...

Founded in 1974, against the backdrop of the Stonewall Uprising, their vision was to have men dance all the roles in classical ballets. While pirouetting in pointe shoes and tutus they lovingly ...