Fantasy and reality intertwined at the March 14 premiere of the Boston Ballet’s 2024 production of “Cinderella,” where every scene sparkled with breathtaking dance and a spellbinding set, and a ...

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Hee Seo, a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, goes through a pair of pointe shoes a day as they become too soft to support her feet.

“Ballet dancers understand that a pair of shoes can change someone’s life,” she said. “Every dancer that puts on their first pair of pointe shoes can relate to Cinderella.

Over the next few months, as it takes Cinderella out on tour, Scottish Ballet will get through 600 pairs of pointe shoes. At £40 a pair, that’s a shoe bill of £24,000.

From left, Dylan Tobias, Andy Nguyen and Ty Danzl rehearse in pointe shoes for their upcoming roles playing the stepmother and stepsisters in New Ballet’s production of “Cinderella,” which ...

Les Ballets Trockadero de Montecarlo dancer Sergio Najeram, center, gives shoe tips and other subtleties to performing en pointe to Houston Ballet Company dancer Nikita Baryshnikov, left ...

Originally created in 1997 for the Australian Ballet, Welch’s Cinderella first entranced Houston audiences when it premiered in ... and twirl in pointe shoes as if it were as natural for them as ...

Faith Salie show us what goes into pointe shoes besides some very talented feet: In the world of ballet, Christmas means one thing: "The Nutcracker"! Stages across the country fill with twirling ...