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I'm a corps de ballet member with the New York City Ballet. Every dancer is trying to make their pointe shoe a part of them, so they wanna mold it to their foot as much as possible.
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 ...
The principals for Scottish Ballet's production of Cinderella will use a new pair of custom-made pointe shoes every night during their tour. Kelly Apter explores the relationship between the ...
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 ...
Faith Salie show us what goes into pointe shoes besides some very talented feet: In the world of ballet, Christmas means one thing: "The Nutcracker"! Stages across the country fill with twirling ...
The artists will receive their shoes in February and will have until May to complete them. All will be unveiled at a Dance Museum event on May 31.
Ballet star Misty Copeland says diverse pointe-shoe emojis would help ensure that ballet 'in all its forms, celebrates every dancer's story and shade.' ...
Each dance company contributed to the LLC and funds were distributed from there. It can cost millions of dollars to create a new ballet like “The Wizard of Oz”.