In Ballet, Pain Really Is Beauty "I wanted bunions, blisters, bleeding toenails, and I envied the girls who bruised more easily," Alice Robb writes in her book about being a child ballerina.

Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City, remembers the “unthinkable” phone call she received on February 24, 2022, from ...

As both writers show, in ballet, pain, injuries, eating disorders, self-deprecation, and the denial of one’s accomplishments all become a source of camaraderie among dancers—a tiny revolution ...

Beyond the bone structure of the feet, the musculature can be greatly impacted as well. Ballet dancers, more so than other ...

At first, Misty Copeland thought the pain she was experiencing was shin splits. It was 2012, and, after 12 years with the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland, one of the few Black dancers in the ...

Besides short-term discomfort, ballet flats can spur bigger issues big-picture like “soft tissue pain such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, and arch pain,” Dr. Javed explains.

Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student at the American Ballet School in New York City, remembers the "unthinkable" phone call she received on February 24, 2022, from her family in Ukraine, ...

Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City, remembers the “unthinkable” phone call she received on February 24, 2022, from ...