Get to the Pointe — Ballet TikTok

Pointe shoes...the craft that keeps on giving!  So many ways to imagine and build a pointe shoe - and infinite ways to take them apart!  For this video, look at some pointe shoe and broader, general pointe shoe hacks to see what dancers are doing to make their tools work for them. It's like a kitchen knife - you want it to do the work for you to a certain extent. The job in this case is to help a dancer do the impossible: support an entire body's weight!  Which hack is the most useful to you?

Ta-da! Here it is.  Everyone's favorite series: pointe shoe fitter reacts to ballet tik toks - PART 41. We've broken the threshold past 40. This series is officially older than EVERYONE who works at this company.  Back at it with a fine, curated selection of the internet's chaos: ballet class bloopers, people doing amazing things with their feet, pointe shoes being taken apart, and a sprinkle of ballet education. What is your favorite section? Let us know what you like to see!

It's here... Pointe Shoe fitter reacts to Ballet Tik Tok - PART 40. Y'all, this series has blown up in a way we never could have anticipated.  As per usual, your curated selection of the ballet internet: pointe shoe hacks, people putting on pointe shoes who maybe should not be, pointe shoes being made, amazing feats of ballet, ect Ya know, the same old but we love it! How long will this series go? Part 50? Part 100?!?!? Be sure to keep tagging us & let us know what you'd like to see! 

We're almost at 40. Some of your dads are probably 40. WILD. *read in catchy game show host voice* Welcome to your favorite ballet internet show - Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts! We have your favorite, the pointe shoe fairy herself, Josephine Lee! This is the show where Josephine reacts to the pointe shoe hacks, beautiful dancing, cringey dance stuff, and more! What will she face next?" What has been your favorite type of ballet internet content? Let us know in the comments!

A short and quick episode for the holiday - be sure to give screens a break and spend time with loved ones! Josephine is enjoying being a mother to our first Pointe Shop Baby, Dio! Is it me, or has the ballet internet somehow become more wholesome? We have our classics of course - the memes and pointe shoe hacks. And now we get some cool fusion stuff too like ballet shapes on a pole and FINALLY stepping into the future by normalizing men en pointe!  It's been a while since Josephine has been traumatized by the ballet internet. And...