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

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 ...

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.

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.

Pointe shoes are harder than both ballet slippers and demi pointe shoes, constructed with a sturdy toe box—think: layers of cardboard and/or fabric glued together—creating a flat platform upon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.