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Ballerina For Hire?! Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts!

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Ballerina For Hire?! Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts!

"Our job is to make it look easy." When people see ballerinas on stage, they are entranced by their beauty and grace. But offstage, SO much work goes into a flawless looking performance. This week, Josephine reacted to a Refinery29 video from their series "Lucie for Hire." Their video producer Lucie, got to meet and dance with none other than Isabella Boylston!  No spoilers, but there are pointe shoes in the video. How do you think it went? Be sure to watch and find out!

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Pointe Shoe Fitting a YAGP Finals Winner

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Pointe Shoe Fitting a YAGP Finals Winner

We went back in time to the 2022 YAGP Finals in Tampa, Florida! In this video, Josephine got to meet and for the Junior Division's 2nd place winner, Yerin Ok. Yerin is from the Korean Division of Youth Grand Prix, YGP. While chatting with this gorgeous dancer, Josephine got to see her rehearsal and performance shoes. They're actually the same brand, size, and shank - just a slight difference between models.  For rehearsal, Yerin wears the Maya. For performance, she wears the Maya Pro. The shoes are basically the same, but her softer and quieter performance shoe is broken in...

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballerina Pole Dancer

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballerina Pole Dancer

"There's a pole. There's a POLE! I know where we're going with this!" The title pretty much says it all.  This week, Josephine reacted to *beautiful* dancer Elena Gibson. According to her Wikipedia page, Gibson trained in classical ballet at Canada's National Ballet School as a young dancer. She danced professionally with the National Ballet of Canada & Bavarian State Ballet in Germany as well. In 2000, Gibson suffered injury in a car accident, forcing her to retire from her professional ballet career. This sparked the beginnings of her fusion of ballet, gymnastics and acrobatic with pole dancing. By 2005,...

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Instagram Reels - Part 2!

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Instagram Reels - Part 2!

"are we cups people now" On this episode of 'traumatizing-josephine-with-the-ballet-internet,' we revisited the land of Instagram Reels! We don't wanna spoil the surprise. Just know there's some Barbie, some cups, some amazing things, and cute things. Ya know, just the usual ballet internet chaos that we love. What will Josephine make of it this time? Watch to find out!

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to RuPaul Drag Race Queen, Lady Camden!

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Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to RuPaul Drag Race Queen, Lady Camden!

June is Pride Month, so we started the celebration strong with having Josephine react to Lady Camden! In case you don't know, Lady Camden was the runner-up on season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race. She's British, fabulous & walked away with a $50,000 cash prize.  Rex Wheeler was born in Camden Town, London, England. He trained with Royal Ballet, then danced for the Slovak National Ballet. In the states, Wheeler moved to San Francisco. She also danced for Smuin Ballet. This video that Josephine reacts to is from the channel Nowness, episode 12 of their 'Just Dance' series. The short film...

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