pointe shoe fitter reacts to BALLET CORE

is ballet core worse than cups???

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[Miranda]

lol at ABT keeping it real and showing how actual ballet dancers dress like they picked their outfit out of what's left in the closet before laundry day.

[asunbeam]

honestly, how cool would it be if a fashion brand like dior hired a choreographer for a fashion show and had real ballerinas dance down the catwalk??

[The_rat_ballerina]

2:21
"The PERFECT pirouette"
"She did not do a single pirouette!"😂

[sophiarose]

Here's what gets me: the looks would be so cute WITHOUT pointe shoes. Just wear ballet flats, or flats that look like ballet soft shoes. You don't have to have the shoes, especially in a POINTE SHOE SHORTAGE.

Edited to add: Josephine had a GREAT POINTE (lol). Use professional dancers in ballet inspired advertisements. That's really unfair to these dancers and disrespectful to not use them, and to use models who don't know what they are doing. It can actually be dangerous to the models and their bodies if they don't know what they are doing.

[frugalhousewife]

I appreciate the spoof video where a dancer is imitating non-dancers modeling dancewear. It was everything. So accurate.

[emilylouise]

Yeah I thought ballet core was just taking inspo from it and incorporating it into fashion. I didn’t know people actually just dress up as dancers. Those sneakers with the ribbon, flowy skirt, and bows on the bags is what I had pictured because it took inspo but made it more.

[Cami_.]

Several dancers are also models with proper modeling agencies, it’s not that difficult to hire a real dancer if you want your model to pose on pointe, and bonus points…they actually know how to tie them so the photoshoot is actually going to turn out better.

Same goes for musicians, so many bad photoshoots where the model doesn’t even know how to hold the instrument properly…just hire a musician.

[daisytwotoes]

I once showed side-by-side pictures of dancers and non-dancers in the same positions to friends. I was shocked that none of them could tell the non-dancers from the dancers.

[BessieStitz]

I love how Josephine knew it was bad before it even started 😂

[MissMiseryGloom]

"That's an interesting fifth position..." Took the words right outta my brain!🤣

[JennaGetsCreative]

All of the ribbons draped under flat shoes instead of under the foot inside the shoe... the ribbons are gonna get so dirty, and then they'll slip around and the dirty will show!

I'm not mad about the model in the soft slippers, though. I used to work at a grocery store and once a week I did an overnight shift changing all the weekly flyer price tags. I would wear my old ballet slippers inside my boots instead of socks so I could shed the boots as soon as the store closed (customers left) and the uniform didn't matter anymore. Way more comfortable! Plus, nobody cares HOW you move through the aisles when you're working an overnight price shift, right? Long aisles of lovely smooth floors and 8-foot shelves blocking the view of anyone else working overnight...

[lilylovesaot]

It pains me when I see non-dancers/non-ballerinas in dance or ballet commercials. There are plenty of talented ballerinas out there who could have a job, and their feet are GORGEOUS!

[ToastontheEastCoast]

When I first read the title, I thought it was referring to ballet inspired workouts, lol. When I realized it meant fashion, I mentally prepared myself for Josephine's horrified reactions. I'm with Josephine about the models, use actual dancers for these kinds of shoots, a lot of them could use the employment plus so many of them are model gorgeous.

[Avovoom]

As someone who took ballet as a child but stopped- I 💯 agree that if you're not trained it's dangerous to attempt point. Like if you mess up your Achilles that could haunt you 😱

[notkeylin]

“It’s the ribbons for me”
Honestly same as a ballet dancer that first thing that I look at are the ribbons 😂

[lollebreuning]

100% true, get dancers jobs and let them do what they are trained to do.

But also, I rejected jobs where they wanted "Ballerinas". Because sometimes they tell you to do it wrong and I don't do it wrong if I can also do it right. Those people also need to be open to actual dancers doing their thing.

[MJsaBitterLemon]

2:29 I stood like that in my ballet class once and my teacher yelled at me and literally grabbed my arms to pull me straight

[kreggie]

I used to own a pair of shoes and they were actual shoes that were made to be similar to ballet slippers. They were brown fake leather with elastic cross straps over the top of the feet. Very pretty and very comfortable. I, for the life of me cannot remember the brand, but they were my favorite semi-dress shoe for work. They were so comfortable I wish I would have bought 10 pairs!

[meganstutu_]

Let’s appreciate the sheer will Josephine has to sit through this 5 minute video because I can’t

[bronwynsteck]

Why do people who know absolutely nothing about ballet think that putting point shoes on someone else who knows absolutely nothing about ballet suddenly makes them look like a ballerina?