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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As someone who grew up in Moscow, ballet was entrenched in the cultural fabric of my life. While ballet has its roots in Italy and France, it has become deeply entwined with Russia’s identity ...

Like most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent Garden maker that now belongs to the French house Repetto. Always ...

Copeland graced the Center for the Arts mainstage as the third speaker in UB’s ‘24-’25 Distinguished Speaker series, sharing ...

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 ...