His shoes come from Gaynor Minden, a ballet-ware company in Chelsea that not only keeps the Trocks on their toes, but sells to a small percentage of other male dancers as well.

Dancers of color have had to wear traditional pink ballet shoes or paint them brown to match their skin tone, but now that's changing.

Despite advancements in the dance world, the construction of toe shoes has remained pretty much unchanged since the late 19th century. Eliza Gaynor Minden explains how her dance shoe company ...

Darker shoes represent inclusion in classical ballet Pointe shoes are typically pink to match the pink tights customary in ballet productions. But pink tights, of course, flatter pale skin tones.