Get to the Pointe

Pointe shoe hacks - the antidote to cups. Ballerinas are as dainty and ethereal as they come....until it's time to customize their shoes! We'll never get tired of it. Watching ballerinas in their extracurricular craft of making adjustments to their pointe shoes.  Humans weren't built to dance on their toes. And as much as pointe shoes have evolved over time, dancers continue to tinker and make adjustments to their precious tools so they can accomplish their otherworldly feat.  Do you have a favorite pointe shoe hack? What's your must-do? Let us know!

Ballet is beautiful, elegant, powerful, and of course - has great fashion. So one would assume a natural crossover in the ven diagram that is ballet and fashion. HOWEVER, dancers and models serve different purposes. They have different abilities, backgrounds, experiences, training, and goals in their respective industry. So while dancers may fit much of the criteria to be a model, this doesn't necessarily make sense the other way around. Models are certain to slay a photoshoot or cat walk in ballet-inspired pointe shoes, no doubt. But there is a line. And that line is, you guessed it, pointe shoes....

Another day, another ballet tik tok reaction! On this episode, Josephine watches some *premium* ballet content. We have a mixed bag of comedy, cringe, cute, scary, hilarious - and all in pointe shoe, of course! What's your favorite flavor of pointe shoe? Comment & let us know!

Swank Lake: probably the most famous ballet about birds! But what if it wasn't birds? What if it was frogs? Or...hands? These videos are a little bit older and were circulating on Reels and TikTok, so we pulled the entire pieces to look at. On this episode of Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts, Josephine looked at these silly swan lakes exploring these creative endeavors - what do you think? 

zNew format alert! This video, we asked Josephine to watch clips from some of the most popular dance movies and TV shows. Some of these we've seen recently, some are less recent. Josephine ranks the videos based on how accurate they are - with special look at any features on pointe shoes, of course. Do you like this new format? What other movies and TV shows have we missed?