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 ...

Some nine years after “The Wizard of Oz,” another movie put a pair of red shoes front and center. They were ballet pointe shoes, and the film, fittingly, was “The Red Shoes.” The sad story ...