Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, 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 ...

You might say this spring shoe trend’s on pointe. Fashion’s latest Frankenshoe is the ballet sneaker, which combines the ...

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.

Then, the 2010s brought us the flimsy shoes that gave our American Apparel skater skirts an indie sleaze edge. In the 2020s the many ballet flat iterations we’ve seen have toed (ahem) the line between ...

As someone who grew up in Moscow, ballet was entrenched in the cultural fabric of my life. While ballet has its roots in ...

A ballet blending international professionals and young locals is set for Shrewsbury. A cast of more than 100 young dancers aged 8–18, handpicked from across the region, will grace the stage of ...

Some corners of the celebrity street style complex will tell you Adidas sneakers are very much the It-shoes of 2025. Bella ...