Pointe shoes

My teacher asked us to write about anything, so I chose to write about pointe shoes. As you probably know, you wear pointe shoes in ballet. Although it looks beautiful on stage there is a lot of sweat and pain going in to dancing with pointe shoes. Wearing pointe shoes takes a lot of practice to make it look amazing and graceful. Pointe shoes last 4 months to 1 year. You know that you can’t wear them anymore when they get sad and loose on your feet, we call those dead point shoes. Pointe shoes cause a lot of pain to wear, when you put on shoes you have to tape your toes with special tape so you don’t damage your toe, when dancing in the shoes. Pointe shoes will easily give you bad blisters, when the shoe rubs against your feet. You buy the shoes but add the elastics and ribbons with a needle and thread yourself. Lots of the advanced ballerinas get their shoes to match their own skin colour.

Facts about Pointe shoes

Once pointe shoes are dead you should never wear them again, it could damage your feet.

There are 5 parts of the shoe that you need to know about when wearing pointe shoes.

The first pair of pointe shoes were invented in1795.

 

Here is a video  of the sugar plum fairy from Royal Opera House 2017 nutcracker. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1qLYukTH8

 

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