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 ...

The traditional pink shoes and tights break the visual line of the bodies of Black dancers. After 60-plus years, Robin Williams, a ballet dancer, recently experienced a first: performing in pointe ...

As a professional dancer, Erin Carpenter was required to wear flesh-colored tights and undergarments to both rehearsals and performances. There was just one problem — those “flesh colored” tights didn ...

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 ...

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“When I first decided to form a ballet company, Mother said: ‘Dear, why don’t you just see a psychiatrist?’ I told her it would be cheaper to form a ballet company.” So Rebekah Harkness went ahead, ...

At Pico and La Cienega lies a glass door. As you enter, the smell of sweat intermingles with the tittering of classical piano music. In the waiting room, a smattering of people are adorned in every ...