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

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.

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

Fifty years ago, Arlene Croce, then this magazine’s dance critic, heralded the advent of “the parody company we’ve been needing,” a troupe of men in pointe shoes called Les Ballets ...