Tag: ballerina feet

Ballerinas Talk About the Agony of De Feet

The Washington Post just ran a rather epic story about ballerinas’ intense, inherently abusive relationships with their feet. And while a lot of it is stuff that serious dancers already know—getting up on pointe requires dancers to be as strong as football players, every dancer has her own pointe shoe break-in method, etc—the piece also […]

"My Ballet Teacher Don't…"

This one’s for all you ballerina-hopefuls out there wrestling with spatula feet… Not all of us were endowed with arches so curved they’d make a banana jealous (le sigh)—and while having less-than-ideal feet isn’t a ballerina death sentence, we understand that the struggle is real. That said, let’s set aside the Thera Bands, the tennis […]