A look behind the curtain at the first in-person pointe shoe fitting for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School since 2019.

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 ...

Mesmerizing Videos of Ballerinas Preparing Their Pointe Shoes Hours of crunching, sewing, and ripping go into readying a piece of footwear that lasts for just one performance.

CPR listener Suzanne Bronson of Grand Junction shares a poem about the special relationship a ballerina has with her pointe shoes.

Sewing elastics (picture one) to Pointe shoes can be challenging, as it must be done a specific way. The elastic is a band that goes from one side of the Pointe slipper to the other in order to ...

Innovative brand of 3D printed pointe shoes sparks controversy within the ballet industry German startup Act’ble has garnered substantial attention from dancers on a global scale for their innovative ...

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 ...

While pointe work is an iconic feature of classical ballet, inadequate strength and improper form often lead to injury. "The engineer in me started thinking, why aren't we using technology to better ...

First Person Meet the Boston Ballet’s pointe person for footwear Helping dancers achieve a perfect fit keeps company shoe manager Kathleen Mitchell on her toes.

That whole system is familiar to scores of girls in the School of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet who graduate to dancing en pointe – and thus require a trip to Castle Rock (or, if they prefer an even longer ...