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 ...

This piece is a product of a partnership between RICE Media and Singapore Management University (SMU) for its Professional Writing module. As someone who grew up in Moscow, ballet was entrenched in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ballet was my fave and I put the most in my ballet. ~ Yes I am doing it on Pointe shoes :) Ive only recently been aloud to go on pointe :) ~ Please rate. ThankYou ~DancerCarina~ ...