Still, Ballet Shoes – one of the children arrives with a pair as a babe in arms – is an uplifting injunction for each child to find the talent they were born with and make a life from it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Confession time: while every other balletgoer of my acquaintance can trace their passion to childhood ...

Read our review of Ballet Shoes, starring Grace Saif, Yanexi Enrique, Daisy Sequerra and Pearl Mackie, now in performances at the National Theatre to 22 February 2025. In Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 ...

baby pink ballet slippers. A ballerina’s point shoes have a reputation for being tough on the toes, which might be why many ballerinas use the dark nickname “coffins” for their footwear.

After The Witches last Christmas, the National Theatre has another seasonal hit on its hands with Ballet Shoes. It was my duty as a critic, rather than knowledge of the book by Noel Streatfeild, or ...

Even the soft shoes worn for the divert by dancers Danila Marzilli and Madeline Squire are designed to facilitate the performance of traditional Chinese fan dance steps. As director and ...

Within the intimate and dimly-lit Ailey Citigroup Theater, dancers emerged from the stage’s wings in cloth ballet shoes, pointe shoes, and a myriad of costumes, bringing the Columbia Ballet ...

Sandals, work shoes and sneakers for men and women that promise to be kind to bunions and other foot problems.

(Fun fact: The GOOP founder's mom, the actress Blythe Danner, once told me that she almost named her daughter Bronwyn but ...

Irina Bartnovskaya, who runs a Telegram channel focused on ballet called “The Devil in Ballet Shoes,” was one of the first to publicize the death — part of which was captured on CCTV — on ...

Irina Bartnovskaya, who runs a Telegram channel focused on ballet called "The Devil in Ballet Shoes," said he had gone ... with the ballet greats. "For me he is greater than (George) Balanchine ...