She took a break from her busy schedule to show us how she customizes her pointe shoes for performances. Following is a transcript of the video. Olivia Boisson: Hi, I'm Olivia Boisson. I'm a corps ...

Having a first fitting for pointe shoes is a “big deal” in a dancer’s life, said Peter Stark, president and director of the ...

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 ...

As a seventh grader and aspiring ballerina, Dr. Darcy Lei wrote her first term paper, on the history of pointe shoes. “During that research I read about doctors that dancers mig ...

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 ...

Kelly Ripa overcame her nerves to balance en pointe for one minute with principle ... moment and shared a photo of herself in her pointe shoes last month along with the caption, “Practice ...

Ballet West and the Frederick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy, Peggy Bergmann Park City Campus plan a magical night with "Aladdin." ...

CounterPointe was born in 2012 from a desire to support ballet by women dancemakers working with the pointe shoe. “We wanted to make it a little bit easier for women to get their work seen and ...