Once a week, Josephine Lee packs around 500 pairs of shoes into her van and drives to dance studios across the region to fit ballet dancers for their pointe shoes. To the dancers, it’s more than just ...

There aren’t any specialist ballet stores in Southeast Alaska. That means it’s hard for young ballerinas to find the right fitting shoes. So every summer, just before school starts Phillip Broadbent ...

They may be stuffed and stiffened, filed and hammered, glued and darned, bent in half, slammed in doorways, steamed over boiling water, baked on radiators, and drenched with alcohol. With all the ...

PerfectFit Pointe’s clients include local studios and a principal dancer from the New York City Ballet. Stanford graduate Leilani Tian wears her PerfectFit Pointe shoe inserts. (Photo by Magali ...

For Judy Weiss, the first point she wants to make about fitting pointe shoes is that she can't explain exactly how she does it. “I have no one way of doing any fitting,” said the former dancer.