A long overdue issue in the dance world has finally been addressed on a large scale as the result of a petition that received more than 300,000 signatures online. Shoe maker Capezio responded on ...

For as long as ballet has existed, it has been an art form that prizes uniformity. For just as long, the tights and pointe shoes that have given ballet dancers that uniformity — to achieve the ...

Although ballet has diversified and changed over the decades, many ballerinas of color still struggle to find pointe shoes and tights to match their complexion. Williams said last month marked the ...

To blend in, ballet dancers of color have long had to take extra, expensive and painstaking steps. Cira Robinson, a ballet dancer with the company Ballet Black, has been painting her shoes to match ...

Dancers of color now have the chance to purchase footwear that come in shades of brown, thanks to a collaboration between the British dance company Ballet Black and the shoe manufacturer Freed of ...

Before professional ballerina Ingrid Silva takes the stage, there's been one chore she's often had to perform that she hopes will soon be a thing of the past. Silva, a Brazilian-born ballerina ...

Eric Underwood's Instagram rant about having to put makeup on his shoes inspired a new ballet shoe by Bloch ... Dancers of color aren’t the only ones who pancake their shoes—some do so ...

Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades.

Ballet shoes are supposed to be “skin-colored.” But for too long, the default “nude” or “skin color” was pale pink. This meant that non-white ballerinas had to “pancake” their shoes or cover them in a ...