Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as technological artifacts, but they certainly are. But, as Whitney Laemmli of the University of Pennsylvania argued at the Society for the History ...

Pointe shoes, which generally cost upwards of $100, only last for about 10 hours of dancing, Taylor Key said. The makeup makes the shoes die, or wear down, faster, she added.

Toe or pointe shoes spelled pointe started being used by dancers in the 1800s. They're designed to support a dancer's foot and take some of the weight of the dancer, ...

For many young ballet dancers, going en pointe is a rite of passage and the start of a long and painful relationship with the shoes that allow them to perform gracefully on the very tips of their ...

New York City Ballet dancers go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes a year. That's because traditional ones break down after only a few wears.

PNB tosses away its pointe shoes for an evening of contemporary work . March 22, 2022 at 10:00 am Updated March 22, 2022 at 2:23 pm . By . Moira Macdonald. Seattle Times arts critic.

But with the black pointe shoe stilettos laced up to the calf, Rodrigo spared the look from being saccharine. She leaned into the camp of it all, topping off the look with a Betty Boop-esque curl ...

Pointe ballet shoes in colours that match Asian and black skin tones are being made for the first time in the UK. For women of colour, practising ballet used to mean having to paint pointe shoes ...

For many young ballet dancers, going en pointe is a rite of passage and the start of a long and painful relationship with the shoes that allow them to perform gracefully on the very tips of their ...