Get to the Pointe

New year, new you - same ballet trends? While it is super hard to track progress in ballet as it feels slow and never-ending, what's easy to spot are fashion and ballet trends.  And somehow, ballet core is still here. And we LOVE it. However, it can be done better...and this is the cry we know that you know all too well. Hire dancers. Especially if you're in Paris and have access to the Opera Ballet. Especially if you're big brand & have the budget to. Yep. Of course things are not always as simple as they seem, but we...

'Tis the season to be nutty! The most exciting season for the ballet world also comes with the extra rush & business of the holidays. To celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, we did a second edition of reacting to Nutcracker Tik Toks! It's so great that this ballet exists at almost every level of dance - and therefore means there are so many variations of it. In this video, we embrace it all & explore what the ballet internet has to share with us. What was your favorite? Did you see the Nutcracker ballet this year? Be...

It's pretty incredible how you can find traces of ballet in so many other disciplines - and it can therefore be appreciated so widely. As the year comes to a close, we want to acknowledge and thank all of our viewers for sticking around with us. We started out as a super niche ballet channel, and over time - evident within this series - we have expanded our content to things ballet adjacent. This was actually such a natural turn because while our heart might be pointe shoe fitting, this trade comes down to service. Ballet might be a foundation,...

So low key but not low key...we ballet know ballet can be a bit snobbish and elitist. But that is completely NOT our mission statement here at ThePointeShop. Our goal is to make ballet as accessible as possible, because it can do good for all - regardless of who you are. So much to be learned & gained from its structure, discipline, & commitment to excellence. These are all qualities that should not be withheld or gate kept to a particular group of people. Back again with our weekly session with the internet's pointe shoe fairy, trying to spread ballet...

Can you believe we're in our 90's?!?! Cue 90's music! Wait just kidding - don't want to get copyright struck. We're back baby! (backstreet's back, alright!) This one's a bit of a rollercoaster and perhaps some hidden leads... For those of you who have been with our pointe shoe fairy on her journey through the ballet internet from the 'Pointe Shoe Fitter Reacts to Ballet Tik Tok' - thank you! There was no way of knowing that this series would go for this long...the internet truly is a never-ending black pit of content and has become even deeper as time...