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 ...

Sandy Liang Mary Jane Pointe Shoe, $495 JW Anderson leather Ice Cubes Ballerina flat, £395 Tod’s leather Bubble Ballerinas, £510 ASICS gel soles on a PVC design by Kiko Kostadinov ...

Craftsman Sergei Murza runs his fingers over a pointe shoe he has just finished making. Then he gives it the final test: The ballet slipper balances perfectly on its tip. Murza produces the shoes ...

1 of 2 Hadley Kalal, 10, reacts to getting up on pointe for the first time during a pointe shoe fitting on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, in at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Bellevue.

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.

Ten percent of profits will go towards the fund, which helps pay for some of the hundreds of pairs of pointe shoes the dancers use each week. To launch the initiative, Sambag called upon famed ...

Pointe Shoes by Sambag and The Australian Ballet Sambag celebrates its second year as Pointe Shoe Partner of The Australian Ballet with the Swan Lake Limited Edition collection, designed by six ...