To me, modern dance came out of that, breaking the rules, just maybe more severely. It was about taking off the toe shoes and conveying the weight of the human condition, as opposed to being ethereal.

While offering darker color shades in shoes, tights and leotards is a first step, there are other issues Bell would like to see the dance world address. For example, while ballet and modern dance ...

Many people still think that contemporary dance is Swan Lake, only the ballerinas wear chitons - not tutus - and demi-pointe instead of pointe shoes. They're wrong. Nevertheless, contemporary ...

The store sells ballet, ballroom and contemporary dance shoes. It also sells protective footwear and comfortable sneakers. Generous clearances and discounts make shopping affordable as well as ...

The list, happily, could go on and on. The "mother of modern dance," who threw off toe shoes and corsets for "natural" movement, was born in San Francisco in 1877. An alley near Taylor and Geary ...

has a number of dance shoes that are historically telling. Anna Pavlova’s feet were famously arched and tapered, yet her shoes have much less pronounced blocks for the toes than any modern ...

Petrova reluctantly goes to dance classes too, though she is dead set on becoming ... Kendall Feaver has recast the piece through a modern lens, even if the setting and costuming look more or less ...

the groundedness of Appalachian flat footing and the expressive freedom of contemporary dance. All these facets of her identity are represented by the different types of shoes she wears to execute ...

By Brian Seibert “Why do they fall down?” This was the question that Yang Meiqi, a Chinese dance educator, asked about the students in a modern dance class she watched in Durham, N.C., in 1986.