Responding to an online petition that attracted over 140,000 signatures, Bloch ballet suppliers will ... dancers from ethnic minority backgrounds would be forced to apply the ‘pancaking’ method to ...

Colorado Ballet dancer Asuka Sasaki and Toto puppeteer Benjamin Rose, with artists of Colorado Ballet in the background ... puppets to ruby-red pointe shoes. His ballet take on the classic ...

CLEVELAND — Recently, a video of a black ballerina enthusiastically opening up her very first pair of brown flesh-colored satin pointe ballet shoes went ... skin tones and backgrounds, Dava ...

LONDON—Ballet dancers ... with their shoes than most people. So do ballet fans. When Marie Taglioni, among the first dancers to perform on the tips of her toes, or en pointe, had her final ...

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 ...

After 60-plus years, Robin Williams, a ballet dancer, recently experienced a first: performing in pointe shoes that actually matched her brown skin tone. Williams reflected that early in her ...

When you picture a ballerina, what do you see: A tutu skirt, elegant posture and maybe pointe shoes? Pirouette into the world of ballet with us as we explore the beauty and purpose of pointe shoes!