And as with any sport—yes, ballet is both a sport and an art form—injuries are inevitable. And ballerinas face some unique ...

Two dancers teamed up with fellow Hopkins master's students to create a smart toe pad and ankle band designed to help prevent ...

Kelly Ripa overcame her nerves to balance en pointe for one minute with principle dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet More than 300 ballet dancers in New York have ...

Live with Kelly and Ryan is teaming up with American Ballet Theatre principal dancers to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Most Ballet Dancers En Pointe Simultaneously Kelly Ripa ...

What he really wanted to do was to dance en pointe, the technique where you dance on the tips of your toes using special ballet shoes. "It took a lot of searching within myself," says Edwards ...

Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines" Ballet pointe shoes are not typically thought of as ...

A 15-year-old amputee has appealed on social media for a new prosthetic leg that will allow her to dance on the tips of her toes. Pollyanna Hope, from Hertfordshire, lost her leg in an accident 13 ...

"Unlike the Trocks, who train and take class en pointe for every performance, for classical companies like ours, it never happens," said Nelson, executive director of Houston Ballet. "You can't ...