Get to the Pointe — pointe

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?

This video is special for many reasons. One, Josephine reacts to the GORGEOUS senior winners from 2024 YAGP Finals. Two, and probably more exciting, Josephine's baby makes his YouTube debut! Dio is just so adorable and hiccuping and making the sweetest facial expressions (wonder where he got that from!)  So join Josephine (& Dio), to get to know the bronze, silver and bronze winners and watch their clips from the New York City Finals!  

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!

We're back in the San Francisco Shoe Room for this one! In our never-ending cruise along the banks of the ballet internet, we take a delightful little detour to visit the artistry of Australian Ballet. Uploaded to YouTube in 2019, Josephine gets to watch "A to Z En Pointe." This delightful and cinematic video takes a ballet spin on the 26 characters of the Latin alphabet. Which letter bit is your favorite?

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...