Welcome to En Pointe, a quarterly series that offers a deep dive into the intersection of beauty and dance through the eyes ...

When scrolling through the substantial offering of emojis on Apple products, users will find a pink — and only pink — pair of pointe ballet shoes. Misty Copeland wants to change that. The ...

Well, Misty recently went viral when sharing how, nearly 230 years after the invention of pointe shoes, she still has to paint her shoes a shade of brown. Misty Copeland / Via tiktok.com ...

A well-fitting pair of pointe shoes is imperative for helping to avoid injury, says Lauren E. Borowski, MD, a sports medicine specialist at New York University Langone Health.

The traditional pink shoes and tights break the visual line of the bodies of Black dancers. After 60-plus years, Robin Williams, a ballet dancer, recently experienced a first: performing in pointe ...

Copeland launched a petition on Sept. 21 to encourage Apple and the Unicode Consortium to expand its skin tone options for the pointe shoe emoji. NBC News reports the campaign kicked off on ...

Right now, if you’re trying to use a pointe shoe emoji, there’s only one option for users—and that’s the “European Pink.” But Black ballerina Misty Copeland is trying to change that ...

Misty Copeland says diverse point-shoes in Apple’s emoji keyboard would help ensure that ballet “in all its forms, celebrates every dancer’s story and shade.” ...

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.

Yin Wang, mother of 11-year-old Emma Xie, is witnessing a pointe shoe fitting for the first time. She’s one of the many parents who say they didn’t get the opportunity to do ballet as a kid.