Get to the Pointe — pointe shoe hacks

We just need to highlight this comment from one of our viewers: "@TheTimHall" said: "Ballet Dancer Breaking In A New Car:- Rips out the seats. - Jumps up and down on the hood. - Drives the car down some steps. - Drives it for 1 day. - Buy a new car..." Yep. That pretty much summarizes pointe shoes hacks - but thank goodness it's a shoe and not a car!  This is Josephine's favorite series to react to. It features all the cool little - but sometimes brutal - ways that ballerinas will customize their pointe shoes. Every person's feet...

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...

It's pretty well known on the internet that ballerinas *DESTROY* their shoes. But what are they actually doing? And more importantly: why??? In this video, Josephine watches and explains some of the most popular pointe shoe hacks on the internet. Some may work for you, but for the vast majority of people, there is no need. Especially if you are a dancer in training, these hacks are not sustainable for you - or your mom's bank account. Darning the tips of your shoes in one thing, but cutting out half the shank may not be. And for dancers who are...

Everyone knows that professionals da crazy things to their pointe shoes.  For how graceful ballerinas are, they can be quite violent when it comes to their pointe shoes!  Josephine reacts to Scout Forsythe -  a beautiful dancer in New York who is actually from Southern California. Fun Fact: Josephine's mom, Grace, used to fit Scout when she was little! Professional ballerinas can afford to customize and beat up their shoes because the company provides them. While this video is really interesting to see Scout's process, please be advised that these hacks are not for everyone!  Dancers in training should definitely...

Cheese grater and pointe shoes? What? This week, Josephine reacted to Maria Khoreva's pointe shoe preparation. And yes, it includes a cheese grater. Khoreva is first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet in Russia. Even if you didn't know her name, if you love ballet, there's a high chance that you've at least seen her picture. Josephine was pretty surprised to see that Maria is in a Bloch stock shoe. Often times, professionals will have custom shoes based on stock shoe models. But even with some changes made at the factory level, pro dancers often still manually adjust and make changes...