They offer both vegan pointe shoes and vegan "soft shoe" ballet slippers as well. Although the master pointe shoe fitter is based in Essex, England, Straight To The Pointe offers shipping worldwide.

Dancers at the New York City Ballet go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes each year. That's because traditional pointe shoes break down after only a few wears. All of them come from Freed ...

Regular ballet flats are just, very soft. They're usually canvas, or leather. You can't go up en pointe with them. Pointe shoes are normally a bit harder so that you can get up on your toes.

I was twelve years old. I quickly realised that returning to ballet in flat slippers is one thing, but putting pointe shoes back on is quite another. It’s no coincidence that films—from The Re ...