Ingrid Silva used to paint her ballet slippers. The 33-year-old dancer was born in Brazil but now performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City and explained that she used to use liquid ...

Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines" Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as ...

Pointe ballet shoes in colours that match Asian and black skin tones are being made for the first time in the UK. For women of colour, practising ballet used to mean having to paint pointe shoes to ...

Once a week, Josephine Lee packs around 500 pairs of shoes into her van and drives to dance studios across the region to fit ballet dancers for their pointe shoes. To the dancers, it’s more than just ...

Devotees of the cult of the ballet slipper—a fiercely loyal group of enthusiasts who sport these flat friends with everything from cropped jeans to evening frocks—are set to expand exponentially next ...

A Spanish artist has reinvented the traditional pointe shoe in order to capture a ballerina's movements and turn them into unique works of art. Using new technology, developed in collaboration with ...