Ballet could be called the art of gracefully defying gravity. Alighting on their toes, ballerinas seem to flout the earthbound pull to which the rest of us are subject. And no time is that more ...

“Prince’s Little Red Corvette,” reads an email from Michael Halpern, when I ask which song he finds best describes a pair of slippers he recently designed. “It’s about energy, boldness, and the ...

Professional Ballerina Scout Forsythe shares how she customizes and breaks in her pointe shoes. Scout shows us her top hacks for preparing her ballet shoes and explains why floss is her secret sewing ...

Veteran ballerina Misty Copeland wants the community to help her #MakeAPointe. Copeland launched a petition on Sept. 21 to encourage Apple and the Unicode Consortium to expand its skin tone options ...

Pointe shoes were ­invented to create the look of a dancer being ethereal and floating across the stage. They can also give you the ability to do intricate fast footwork and turn [easily]. Most ...

The Hiplet ballerinas are a performance group designed to make ballet accessible to everyone – fusing classical pointe technique with hip-hop. Joining us now with more is artistic director Homer ...

Upstairs in a lofty studio at the Margaret Alkek William Center for Dance, there's something a little different about Monday's afternoon class. Some of the male dancers wear cargo-style joggers and ...