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.

Bloch follows another pointe shoe brand, Freed, which introduced darker shades of pointe shoe on top of its pink satin offering back in 2019.. Freed’s shimmering shoes, which took a year to develop ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...