Get to the Pointe — ballet core

As we know, the ballet internet - and the internet at large - isn't a safe space. There's so much misinformation and inflammatory content that it can be hard to sift through it all to make sense of things. So, when Timothee Chalamet's comments about the ballet and opera went viral not only within the ballet community, but pop culture at large, we chose to take a beat before responding. This video is a usual reaction video, but it's also Josephine's take on the situation. A longer and explained perspective that might be a hot take - that Timothee's comments...

Josephine Lee reviews the Bloch Eurostretch pointe shoes! The most unique and notable features of the Eurostretch are its split outer sole and stretch satin, making it an incredibly innovative pointe shoe at the time that it came out. Though Leos was the first brand to have a split sole pointe shoe, this brand was acquired by Bloch, who has now continued with the innovation and expanded on it by adding the stretch satin, allowing the shoe to fully contour to the dancers' feet. The Bloch Eurostretch is a spin off one of Bloch's most popular and iconic models, the...

Ballet careers are short, but the content they inspire is rich! Welcome back to your weekly dose of ballet internet content! This week's video is a vibrant mix of everything ballet/dance in short form content, from the elegance of dancers at the barre and the sparkle of pointe shoes, to the humor in ballet fails and the realities of dancing through pain. It even takes a quick look at the history of ballet shoes. And a dash of Master Ballet Academy! Would you dance through illness?

So we try to keep out content ballet shoe - specifically pointe shoe - focused of course. And in our tik tok reaction series, we dive deep into the ballet side of the internet. Well, recently, the algorithm has decided to push us into another deep end: the rabbit hole that is bizarre and strange shoes of the internet. This is our first foray into this side of the internet. From the perspective that only we know: is it a ballet shoe?  Because we're pointe shoe fitters, Of course we compare all footwear to a pointe shoe. ;) 

To those who are new here, welcome to Josephine vs. the Ballet Internet. In this series, we tackle a myriad of topics pertaining to ballet with our favorite pointe shoe fitter, Josephine Lee!  In this video, you'll see beautiful pointe shoes, commentary on ballet donors, the cutest baby ballerina, some interesting costuming choices, and of course, dead pointe shoes too. Part of the lore of this series is cups - which is markedly not in this episode.  In the second Tik Tok reaction video, we saw that our audience commented about cups on tik tok. This is a bit where...