Misty Copeland remembers the first time she saw a brown ballet slipper. She was 14 years old and performing in Debbie Allen’s iconic “Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” ballet. The brown slippers she saw among ...

HOUSTON – “A lot of death happens in them,” jokes Houston Ballet principal dancer Jessica Collado of her silk, baby pink ballet slippers. A ballerina’s point shoes have a reputation for being tough on ...

Called “Ballet Pink,” Alo’s collection features 40 new styles and accessories in a diverse range of performance wear, loungewear and fashion-forward pieces all inspired by traditional ballet attire ...

Fifteen years have passed since I hung up my pointe shoes, and still, Tchaikovsky scores, Balanchine choreography, and the beauty of a quick change in the wings of a theater occupy a good amount of my ...

In March of 2019, Unicode, the organization responsible for standardizing the representation of text and emojis in modern software products for brands like Apple, released a set of emojis designed to ...

In a dance studio doubling as a bomb shelter in northeast Ukraine, young girls dressed in pink tutus dance under the instruction of Marina Altukhova. The Princess Ballet Studio provides a brief ...

Anamarie McGinn is following the showbiz adage, “Always leave them wanting more.” The longest-serving dancer of Orlando Ballet, McGinn will retire from the company after this week’s season-ending ...

As August turned into September, I was starting to feel a shopping itch I thought only a pair of brown suede sneakers could scratch. The hint of changing leaves and cooling temperatures had me racing ...