Get to the Pointe — pointe shoe shortage

If you're into ballet at all, you probably know about YAGP - Youth American Grand Prix - even if you don't know you know about YAGP. Youth American Grand Prix is the world's largest non-profit international student ballet competition. YAGP holds regional competitions around the world, open to dancers 9-19, giving dancers-in-training stage time, master classes, and most importantly: opportunities to be seen by some of the most prominent figures in ballet.  You might recognize YAGP from the 2011 documentary, First Position. This film featured YAGP as the vehicle for many hopeful dancers to win scholarships to major ballet companies around...

We normally don't talk about politics in ThePointeShop. But current circumstances moved us otherwise. "I want to make a distinction between the Russian citizen and Russian politics, because a lot of citizens do not necessarily believe what their government is doing. It's unfair to punish the entire country and unfair to punish individual dancers and artists for being Russian." And while it may seem silly to talk about pointe shoes in the midst of this conflict, we did want to address the questions and concerns we've been receiving about about pointe shoe supply. The truth is that the pointe shoe industry...