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.

Which ballet pointe shoes are best? Ballet shoes can provide you with comfort and protection while you are practicing and performing ballet. Ballet pointe shoes, in particular, are designed ...

Professional Ballerina Scout Forsythe shares how she customizes and breaks in her pointe shoes. Scout shows us her top hacks for preparing her ballet shoes and explains why floss is her secret sewing ...

Inclusivity is something to dance about—just ask Kira Robinson. The ballerina is going viral after posting a TikTok of herself opening a pair of new pointe shoes. These shoes are different than any ...

Although Robin Williams has been a ballet dancer for more than 60 years, she experienced a first during her performance of The Nutcracker this December. Williams said when she danced the Dance of the ...

For the first time in their career, black and Asian ballet dancers can get pointe shoes that match their skin tone Colleen Kratofil is the Senior Editor, TV at PEOPLE. She has over 10 years of ...

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. At the end of ...

Grand Junction poet Suzanne Bronson became fascinated by the connection between a ballerina and her footwear after coming across a collection of autographed dance shoes while she was a student at ...

They may be stuffed and stiffened, filed and hammered, glued and darned, bent in half, slammed in doorways, steamed over boiling water, baked on radiators, and drenched with alcohol. With all the ...

Kira Robinson, 18, filmed herself unboxing the pointe shoes for a video posted to TikTok Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau ...