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We're officially less than a handful away from Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballet TIk Tok 100! Some highlights for ya, with your fave ballet-internet-pointe-shoe-fitting-master-fairy, Josephine Lee! Some gorgeously animated ballet Ballet meets volleyball in a Japanese style! A dream ballerina proposal (Juliet DOES end up with Romeo!) Iconic Irish Dancing, Lochlan! We love seeing all of your comments & stories in the comments! Thank you for keeping us going!

Hi ballet friends! Thanks for joining us for another weekly episode of "Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts!" Can you believe it's episode 95?! Soooo close to 100! Some highlights from this week's video: Upper body strength of ballerinas revealed Trauma from childhood hobbies/sports...I'm sure you can guess the take that was shared here haha Comfortable shoes will always be ugly AKA cute shoes are RUINING us The dancer to medical profession pipeline! We love What was your favorite bit?  We LOVE seeing your comments & experiences. Thank you for being such a lovely community on the wild, wild west that is...

Happy new year, ballet lovers! We're happy to be back with your weekly does of the ballet internet.  Some new topics that we haven't seen before are included in the clips of this episode: ballet class piano accompanists the value of ballet programs that are specifically aimed for adults- whether they are coming back to ballet or are completely new to it understanding the different priorities for pointe shoe fitting for adults a professional ballerina 'meeting her maker' - pointe shoe maker that is! NOT AI - super cute teddy bear that is brightening up the ballet internet space with...

New year, new you - same ballet trends? While it is super hard to track progress in ballet as it feels slow and never-ending, what's easy to spot are fashion and ballet trends.  And somehow, ballet core is still here. And we LOVE it. However, it can be done better...and this is the cry we know that you know all too well. Hire dancers. Especially if you're in Paris and have access to the Opera Ballet. Especially if you're big brand & have the budget to. Yep. Of course things are not always as simple as they seem, but we...

'Tis the season to be nutty! The most exciting season for the ballet world also comes with the extra rush & business of the holidays. To celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, we did a second edition of reacting to Nutcracker Tik Toks! It's so great that this ballet exists at almost every level of dance - and therefore means there are so many variations of it. In this video, we embrace it all & explore what the ballet internet has to share with us. What was your favorite? Did you see the Nutcracker ballet this year? Be...