Get to the Pointe — pointe shoe fitting

Josephine shares her true thoughts on the Bloch Heritage! The Heritage is one of Bloch’s most popular models of pointe shoes, featuring one of their most tapered boxes while still maintaining a medium sized platform that is stable and easy to balance on. The Heritage is made on a slightly curved last but is not quite as curved as other Bloch models, such as the European Balance. This pointe shoe has a full shank that is available in both a regular and strong strengths.  The Heritage has sizes ranging from a 2-9 and widths ranging from 0-4 X.  This pointe...

New year, same Josephine :)  And same ballet internet? Well, sort of. That's what we love about ballet though, right? Amongst the chaos of the world and just life, we know and plie will be a plie.  And for the record, we LOVE Riley from Nikolay. He actually is one of our featured speakers at our upcoming Pointe Intensive in February. It's so fun to hear from all the vendors and get the inside scoop on their shoes. Hope to see ya there!

the only thing i've done 42 times or more are plies. Ok, let's be honest, probably done plies over 100 times! We're back with the internet's favorite ballet series - pointe shoe fitter reacts to Ballet Tik Toks! A curated mix of memes, comedy, education, art, and more - all in the ballet vein. This content fuels our existence. And in honor of spooky season starting...a little fright to wake up your work week. Enjoy! 

In honor of Youth American Grand Prix (YAGP)'s 25th Anniversary, we are watching some future stars of ballet from the 2024 Finals! Dancers from all over the world flock to New York City's illustrious Lincoln Center to compete.  This episode, the pre-competitive category! Aka, the tiny dancers! Josephine, your resident pointe shoe fairy & favorite ballet commentator, watches clips of the top 3 winners in this category. Which was your favorite? Can you imagine them in pointe shoes? 

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...