Get to the Pointe

"I'm so excited because I'm reacting to BTS and I'm Korean"  This week, Josephine reacts to the world's most popular boyband: BTS!  While we try to keep most of the react content ballet related, this 7-member group luckily has a song called "Black Swan." Don't worry, no scary magical bird transformation in this version.  Josephine watched the intro to the song from the band's performance at the MMA's in 2020. This performance has been considered highly artistic and out-of-the-box for a male music group, but is studded with a beautiful set and ensemble of dancers. What did she think? Watch...

Ever in a rush from ballet to tap class that you just don't have the time to switch shoes?  Well, Josephine has discovered a solution for you! Toe tapping! In this week's video, Josephine reacts to an old movie that features a vaudevillian dance break featuring a woman and man tap dancing en pointe. The dancers appear to be wearing pointe shoes that have little taps at the tip of them, and perform gravity defying feats. Since the video is quite old, it's a bit hard to tell much more - but we're interested. If you or anyone you know has...

5, 6, 7, 8!  We're back again with another episode of 'The Ballet Internet Traumatizes Josephine Lee' - or in other words, 'pointe shoe fitter reacts to tik tok - PART 8!'  A crowd favorite, Josephine jumps through emotional hula hoops for you...it's a good one - watch to find out!

Do you love our Tik Tok react videos? Thank dancingwithmackenzie!  This week, Josephine reacted to one of the OG ballet YouTubers: dancingwithmackenzie! Josephine's been a long time fan of this dancer/creator, but hadn't seen this particular video. In this skit video, Mackenzie acts out 3 types of dancers at their first pointe shoe fitting. We'll let you watch the video to see how that turns out - but long story short, Josephine found this video SUPER relatable. P.S. Mackenzie might have a future as a pointe shoe fitter ;) 

We've fallen through the Dance Moms YouTube rabbit hole & we can't get out.

This week, we had a little blast from Dance Moms past and had Josephine react to Lily K!

Josephine didn't know any of this of course. She had a lot of fun watching adorable 11 year old Lily portray expectations vs. reality of a first dance class. And while this fun skit included pointe shoes in a first ballet class, we all know that doesn't happen in real life.