It is more than just a display of technical prowess, also a journey of the characters and the dancers themselves.

You have to do a lot more work. More from News Olivia ... I'm a corps de ballet member with the New York City Ballet. Every dancer is trying to make their pointe shoe a part of them, so they ...

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 ...

The dancers perform high-intensity marching on full pointe ... This is a ballet piece – plain and simple. But because “Homecoming” puts in the leg work to make this medium accessible ...