The pointe shoes designed by Adam Lippe are covered ... “I love the YAGP, it’s important to support the arts,” said Noel. “Ballet and dance are amazing art forms, we need more of this ...

I'm a corps de ballet member with the New York City Ballet. Every dancer is trying to make their pointe shoe a part of them, so they wanna mold it to their foot as much as possible. So there's a ...

Others fear that, without the suffering that can accompany traditional pointe shoes, the art form itself will be diminished.

Dancers at the New York City Ballet go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes each year. That's because traditional pointe shoes break down after only a few wears. All of them come from Freed ...

To be a ballet dancer, one must also be a seamstress. Once graduated to pointe shoes, a ballerina also takes on the routine task ...

Making pointe shoes for ballet dancers is a skill held by very few across the UK – and there is only one producer left in London. Freed of London, based in Hackney, has been making pointe shoes ...

During her teen years, Yvonne trained rigorously under the Dance Arts studio’s scholarship, enduring late-night classes. “Instead of going out or relaxing, I was dancing until 10 PM.