Get to the Pointe

Introducing our 2022 Pointe Shop Senior Model, Isabella Graves! Izzy is a trainee at Milwaukee Ballet, who was home in OC for a little while before the season started. She dropped by our Santa Ana showroom to get refit with Josephine. Because of her dance load and an old injury, Josephine ended up not only changing the shape and model of her pointe shoe, but also the shank between her two feet. Changing shank strengths is not an end-all, be-all solution for everyone. Izzy has very specific needs, so even if this sounds and looks like you, it is still...

After a hurricane and 12 hour train ride, we made it to made it to New York successfully! And to celebrate, Josephine watched the latest Rybka Twins video! They took us to their fitting as they got new shoes, and attempted the famous 32 fouetté challenge from the Black Swan variation of Swan Lake. Did Josephine like the new shoes? How did the twins do? Did the 12-hour train ride affect our sanity? You'll have to watch to find out!

We filmed this in the middle of a hurricane lol. This weekend, Josephine & Jazley were at the Winston-Salem Dance Medicine Conference in North Carolina. The plan was to be at the conference Friday, then be in Rochester on Saturday for more pointe shoe fittings. However, Ian (hurricane) said 'nope!' So after the flights got cancelled, Jo and Jaz were in a hotel room with robes and way too much time on their hands. And thus, this video was born.  Josephine watched some crazy ballet teacher things (no surprise there), she jumped on the bed and scraped herself, and Jazley...

now we have a tik tok video for every month of the year - TIK TOK TWELVE. hi everyone on this week's episode - wow i guess they're episodes now - we have another iteration of josephine vs. the internet. in other words, a bunch of ballet tik toks for our resident master pointe shoe fitter to react to. for those who may be new to this all, our episodes (sticking to it, too late to turn back now), these reaction videos include joy, laughter, confusion, and usually some sort of trauma. so, sit back, relax, and enjoy the internet...

This week, Josephine got to have some fun with OG YouTube Queen: Liza Koshy. For those who don't know, Liza is one of the few many consider 'made the jump' from being a 'Youtuber' to the mainstream. In other words, Liza has been able to go from viral internet star, to mainstream media darling. She was recently on the red carpet of the Met Gala, interviewing our favorite stars and celebrities from TV & movies. Even Josephine knows who she is! And although Liza is no longer self-producing her own YouTube content, we dug up this fun little day of...