The process of preparing ballet shoes for dancing is an intricate and time-consuming one. It takes Colorado Ballet principal dancer Sharon Wehner nearly three hours to make her pointe shoes danceable.

Which ballet pointe shoes are best? Ballet shoes can provide you with comfort and protection while you are practicing and performing ballet. Ballet pointe shoes, in particular, are designed ...

Regular ballet flats are just, very soft. They're usually canvas, or leather. You can't go up en pointe with them. Pointe shoes are normally a bit harder so that you can get up on your toes.

Which ballet pointe shoes are best? Ballet shoes can provide you with comfort and protection while you are practicing and performing ballet. Ballet pointe shoes, in particular, are designed ...

In the famous Rose Adagio in “The Sleeping Beauty,” ballerinas find endless challenge in a series of (ideally) serene balances. Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and ...

Arts · OFF KILTER You'll seriously never believe what ballet dancers do to break in their pointe shoes Hammers and knives and pliers and destruction and oh my god do they really do this?