Dancewear store The Dancers’ Room has closed after 15 years, with an online auction now underway to sell its ballet shoes and ...

A Pennsylvania pointe shoe company lost everything in a warehouse fire. U.S. trade policy is making starting over even harder ...

Nonprofit dance company Pointeworks creates opportunities on and offstage for women, including choreographers and composers, during ballet's off-season.

Posted on 19 June, 2025 Keen dancer, 12-year-old Rosie Welling, is swapping her ballet shoes for hiking boots to take on the Kokoda Track with her parents Kiz and Kath — in the hopes of raising ...

Pointe requires specialized shoes with reinforced, rigid toe boxes created from layers of fabric, cardboard, and glue. The unforgiving surface leads many dancers to wear protective toe pads inside ...

And as with any sport—yes, ballet is both a sport and an art form—injuries are inevitable. And ballerinas face some unique physical challenges due to one signature technique: ...

The American Ballet Theater’s first Black female principal dancer on everything she’s fought for and the decision to end her historic career with the company.

For those pre-pedicure days when you don't want to get your toes out, you'll shun your summer sandals in favour of a closed-toe flat shoe. Here's outfit inspo on how to wear dresses and flat shoes.

Closeup shot of feet ballerina in pointe shoes standing balancing on toes while practicing training ballet dancing on carpet floor in living room at home. Performance high skill of a ballerina dancer.

The curriculum includes as much fight and weapons training as it does pointe shoes. De Armas only got to film one ballet scene in Ballerina. "I did some ballet just for fun when I was little," she ...

wearing pounds of power jewelry and Cher-strength makeup as a Ruska Roma crime queen known only as “The Director,” putting a young ballet student through her pirouette paces until her toes have bled ...