allet is one of the most trained to ‘dance on point’. This
beautiful and controlled means they are standing on
form of dance. The dancers tip-toe inside their shoes. The
seem to float upon the stage as dancer uses both strength and
they are slight in figure and technique to keep herself aloft
dressed in ethereal barely there in this position. This technique
costumes to contribute to the included utilizing the muscles of
illusion of weightlessness. The her feet, ankles, leg and torso
truth of the matter is, these to pull herself and her body up
dancers are putting enormous into the position.
stress and pressure upon their
feet and by the time they are A ballerina is not encouraged to
finished with their onstage ‘dance on point’ until she has
careers, their feet will be an been trained properly to do so
unsightly mess. Their extreme which is why children never
control over their bodies is ‘dance on point’. Dancers wear
epitomized in their control over soft slippers before they wear
their feet. The ballet can be point shoes. Once they are
traced back to Italy during the allowed to use the point shoes,
15th century. The first they only do so for brief periods
documented ballet told the story of time and build up that time
of the Greek myth of Circe. Circe until they can do so for the
had magical powers and could turn length of an entire class. Point
men into animals. The traditional shoes are built to be very stiff
ballet shoes were probably not in order to support the foot.
worn at this first five and a They have a stiff “shank”
half hour performance, performed underneath the arch that envelops
in honor of a wedding. the foot firmly allowing the
dancer to rest her weight on the
Ballet dancers are specifically bulk in the toe of the shoe.
in. The new technologies and
Male dancers rarely wear point materials used to create these
shoes and the upper is usually shoes make them slightly safer
made of pink satin or dyed to and also more resilient to their
match the costume of the dancer. forebears. This is good for both
Point shoes are made specifically the expense and the health of the
for the wearer and so do not have dancer.
to, as in the past before this
was common practice, be broken
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