Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

A history of pointe shoes is also a history of pointe technique. They evolved together; they created each other. But the pointe shoe itself is seldom given recognition for its role in steering the development of technique.The Italian princess Catherine de Medici married the French Henri II and introduced ballet de cour, or "court ballet" to the Court of France in the sixteenth century. From these early productions featuring masked and costumed courtiers, dancing at court developed into lavish spectacles and extravaganzas, from which a codified vocabulary of steps eventually emerged-- the same steps and the same basic positions that you do every day in class.

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes