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  • 19 Jun
    22:37 pm
    theballetblog:         (A traditional pointe shoe cut in half) Imagine a shoe so uncomfortable you have to hammer the insole and smash it inside a door to make it tolerable. Now imagine tossing the same $70 shoe in the trash because it shredded into pieces after just 45 minutes. Welcome to the world of ballet. For 400 years, pointe shoes have been built the same way with the same materials, producing bloody blisters for generations of female ballerinas. A papier-mâché manufacturing method of satin, paper, hessian, paste and leather results in a shoe that every 12 year old girl, and a few special boys, yearn to wear but can’t wait to take off. So while you nodded off at the yearly Nutcracker performance, perhaps some sympathy was due for the Snowflake Fairy on tiptoes.              Traditional shoes require ballerinas to literally break them before any plié using archaic inaccurate methods (see video below). Slamming doors, hammers, knives or a strong pair of hands are used to snap stiff potions of the shoes in a ritual so crude it boggles the mind yet so old the industry knows no different. Ballerinas even used to put raw steak in the toe of the shoe to minimize the impact and pain

    theballetblog:

            (A traditional pointe shoe cut in half) Imagine a shoe so uncomfortable you have to hammer the insole and smash it inside a door to make it tolerable. Now imagine tossing the same $70 shoe in the trash because it shredded into pieces after just 45 minutes. Welcome to the world of ballet. For 400 years, pointe shoes have been built the same way with the same materials, producing bloody blisters for generations of female ballerinas. A papier-mâché manufacturing method of satin, paper, hessian, paste and leather results in a shoe that every 12 year old girl, and a few special boys, yearn to wear but can’t wait to take off. So while you nodded off at the yearly Nutcracker performance, perhaps some sympathy was due for the Snowflake Fairy on tiptoes.     
             Traditional shoes require ballerinas to literally break them before any plié using archaic inaccurate methods (see video below). Slamming doors, hammers, knives or a strong pair of hands are used to snap stiff potions of the shoes in a ritual so crude it boggles the mind yet so old the industry knows no different. Ballerinas even used to put raw steak in the toe of the shoe to minimize the impact and pain

    (via balletomaneassoluta)

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