Why am I watching these videos? I don’t dance ballet! Yet, I am completely fascinated.

This was such an interesting video! I got cleared for pointe shoes on Wednesday and I’ve been going down the KZfaq rabbit hole ever since

Nobody comes close to your knowledge. You're brilliant

I love this whole series of conversations with dancers about their pointe shoes and their experience. I took dance for many years in the 80s and 90s. I was briefly en pointe and took 6 months or so of pre-pointe in demi-pointe with other girls in my class. I thought I knew a lot, but realized watching your conversations, that a lot has changed and there was a lot I just didn't know. I think I was completely ill-fitted the first time, as well. Thanks for this video series.

You are so absolutely right about resetting! It can be a good opportunity to apply changes for the better! It works! Take it from me, I stopped at 26 and resumed at 40!

I don’t dance but I always find points shoe prep so interesting. I always love hearing the customizing for professional dancers by the shoe maker and then beyond that what THEY do after they have their pointe shoes. I would love being a pro ballet dancer. As many shoes as you need. I’m a big Frankie Hayward fan from the royal ballet in London. How many pointe shoes she goes through is crazy. I hope one day she can be on the pointe shop discussing her customizes and hacks. Her feet dancing wise are so perfection. So I would love to know what she does to make her flawless pointe work manageable. The girl went from corps to principal in five years which is insanity. I’ve always wanted to know what she does to hers

Great video! (40 min yikes😲) I would love to see closeup shots of the dancers' feet both in and out of shoes as they explain the relationship of their specific choice of shoe to their foot (and their customizations). i.e. some dancers with short toes are more comfortable in a deep vamp rather than the expected short vamp and explaining why that works better for their feet

I got to see Sasha twice last year in Don Q and at the Stern Grove Festival and she is AMAZING 😍

This video is my go to when I am having a rough day. Sasha has such a sweet spirit. I wish I lived on the west coast, if I did, I would be able to see her perform live...until then, this video brings me joy!

I love watching this it's so interesting I keep watching this series because I am getting my first fitting for point shoes on Tuesday next week.

I just got cleared for pointe shoes and I am so excited!!!! Time to start binge watching ThePointeShop! 😂

I totally understand the whole reset thing. After coming back from a 3-year break I got completely different shoes and I am honestly doing so much better in them. It's interesting though because I don't think I would have liked them previously.

Love the interview,

I didn't fully understand why all the hacks until I saw the video with a dancer who wears shoes everyone else would call dead and they last a month. That dancer's feet are like steel and don't need external support. Shasha's feet are like ball bearings in a sock (not a bad thing for a ballerina), which is why she needs fresh shoes every minute.

Sasha needs to do a hair how-to video!

Very interesting video. I don’t dance but thought it would be interesting to learn about. I heard in another video that the shoes can cost over $100 per pair, how in the world do dancers afford the need to replace them so frequently. I really had no idea. Amazing talent to be a ballerina!

Very cool, great advice for dancers

She is like one of the most beautiful people-she legit looks like a princess! She’s stunningly gorgeous😍

AWWWW yeah, another Repetto fan!! I’ve loved them ever since they took over making my beloved Gamba 93!!!

Karen Main has her first pairs of shoes from her first ballet that she was the Prima Ballerina for. The role was Swan Lake. They are in a hermetically sealed display box in her study, from when she was with the Royal Canadian Winnipeg Ballet. I saw her perform this ballet at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was so graceful and beautiful to watch!! Best Regards and Many Blessings Josephine, as well to your Mother as well. Much Respect Always. From Ontario, Canada, Jenn. 💖💖🇨🇦

Could you do a video on darning please. Close up. Thank you

Never heard of Repetto brand of pointe shoe! Great info!

Got my first pair of pointe shoes in SF! I really enjoy these videos although I don't dance ballet right now! Keep up the good work!

Top video great work

She's so cute. Love this video.

So, like 10 pairs of shoes a day times $80. Yikes.

Hello! Is darning also good for beginners?

This shoe or more a day thing has me like 🤯

The RAD vocational syllabus (Intermediate and higher) requires students to use deshanked shoes (or demi pointe/soft blocks) for the non-pointe exercises. Certain brands cannot be deshanked (Russians, Gaynors) and I have never met a dancer who has anything positive to say about commercially available demi pointe/soft blocks.

Hi, i'm 13 years old and want to start ballet. Do u think i could still become a really good ballerina if i start at that age?

Does Sasha pass on her “dead” shoes to other dancers?

What does knotting mean?

Josephine: can you show your feet for me also Josephine: wow you really have such mobile ankles

I’m earlyish👌👌

How can I get more flexible ankles?

What is jet glue?

She's from hope dances!

Omg she has some very strong and flexible feet to manage those shoes! Dead shoes to her would be barely even broken in for many I guess lol I’m not a dancer, but when younger I wanted to try ballet as that’s the only dancing I could ever see myself doing. Now I’m almost 34 and disabled due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, but thanks to the EDS, I do have rather flexible feet for a non dancer, and I do have this thing on my bucket list to try on a pair of pointe shoes one day and see if I can get on pointe even just for a second (and possibly with holding onto something for dear life and have 4 people around me to stop me from falling lol) just to see what it’s like, and kinda get to experience a little bit of a childhood dream I never got to pursue. I remember at around age 10-11 when I wanted to start ballet, I’d borrow books at the library and practice some at home, and I was so strong at the time I could actually somewhat stand on the tips of my toes in regular socks if I let some weight be on the back of the chair I was holding onto for balance. Maybe one day I’ll just order a cheap pair of pointe shoes from Wish just to try them on, and once that’s done, have them as decorations at home as the shoes are so so pretty! And I know I could injure myself... But thanks to my EDS, I injure myself all the time, even when just moving a leg or rolling over in bed or reaching for something or bending forward a bit in my wheelchair to get a bit of an extra push when going from gravel to grass (that partially dislocated a hip in June) so sometimes you just gotta live, and try some of your dreams just once... I’d have loved to start taking ballet lessons, but sadly there’s no studio where I live and especially not one for adults wanting to try ballet, along with the fact I can not be upright for long without extreme pain...

Isnt sasha in the movie hope dances?

You are matching! Did you do that on purpose? So cute.

What I the black things on your feet

I wish when I am ready for my pair you can come to Hawaii and fit me

That’s a very good POINTE

Love the booties.

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What does she have on her feet when you first talk to her

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That's how my shoes are when they are dead to a T! I use only my feet to break in my shoes and get one good class out of them and make them last for atleast 2 weeks.

How do you afford that many shoes?!!! It's not like they's cheap!

Perfect feet for a Ballerina! No long toes to give pain. You're awesome.I wish you had an adress in order to purchace retired point shoes. I collect them. :-)

She should find a buddy that needs a little les hard shoes and can wear her "dead" shoes. 😅

Does she wear hard shoes because she’s not strong/professional enough to wear soft shoes?

With all the technology, why can’t someone make a dam ballet shoe that lasts even 1 month. Is that too much to ask for? These shoe companies must be severely outdated and money hungry.