This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Every little girl likes to go to ballet class dressed in pink tights and ...

For as long as ballet has existed, it has been an art form that prizes uniformity. For just as long, the tights and pointe shoes that have given ballet dancers that uniformity — to achieve the ...

Jasmine Snead used to dye her tights in what she calls "Frankenstein type of experiments." As a figure skater for over two decades, she would use tea or, later on, fabric dye, because companies just ...

Dancers who wear pointe shoes endure a seemingly endless search for the perfect shoe. From the time they fit their first pointes, they attempt to find a shoe that will suit their unique foot and ...

Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades. “I ...

Dancewear companies around the world are pledging to introduce different shades of skin-colored clothing after dancers demanded greater inclusiveness. Members of the dance community started a petition ...

Dancer Cortney Taylor Key pancakes her pointe shoes with makeup to match her skin tone. Pointe shoes have reflected ballet’s stance on race politics for centuries, recognizing only a pearlescent pink ...