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 ...

Raffaele Morra, associate ballet master for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male company, says applying rubbing alcohol to his toes is one way he prepares for the rigors of pointe shoes.

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 ...

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 ...