How to Sew your Pointe Shoes | Ballet Tutorial

Hello Everyone!

Today Suvi and I will be preparing our pointe shoes. Pointe shoes are very individual and everyone has their own special way of doing their shoes but hopefully you will fine some nice tips from us as well as enjoy our conversations. Grab your pointe shoes and cup of tea and let's sit together and chat.

If you want to see us do the whole exam then definitely let us know in the ocmments! :-)

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[veramentegina]

I am just watching for the jokes and giggles. you two are just hilarious!

[K_ballet]

I love it when you do videos together! You ladies made me laugh. Esp the cutting away/Romeo and Juliet. You are adorable, you two!
The only thing I wish you would’ve shown was the final product of how the shoes look on your feet!

[brianne]

I love seeing how people prep their shoes! There's so much variety out there. I wish I had a darning guy like Suvi, it takes me forever.

[TwanWu]

Please do a video where you and Suvi talk about which roles you'd like to dance!

[Cvincent-smythe]

Gamba pointe I loved those, fitted beautifully, my favourite pointes, was so unhappy when they disappeared.

[divab]

This was so amusing! When I started ballet (years ago), we all started with Capezio Pavlovas and lambs wool. No choices. Later I moved to Freeds (still my fave and I wore a 6.5 XXX) and I cut off the toe part of a sock and used that as my padding with taped toes (we were cheap and used masking tape)! Always cut the shank. But no jet glue back in the day, so we used Future floor wax to save dead shoes! I love all the new things available to dancers.

[balletobsessedweirdo]

I have a video request!! <3
reacting to your old performances (if you have any footage, of course)
that would be so entertaining haha love u guys

[daniellem]

Haha I'm 5'9 with size 8 pointe shoes so don't feel bad! If you had boats on your feet then I have ships! Lol

[suzannejenkins]

Hi...I have never been intetested in ballet...I am at a loss on how to explain why I find your videos incredibly interesting....am learning lol

[Shiva-t]

There were no gel or pouches when I was young, it was lambswool

[mermaidopulence]

When I'm sewing and breaking in a new pair of pointe shoes I do the usual stepping on the box (gently) and slightly bending the shank. I also darn my shoes but the way I darn them is a bit different than others. I darn the bottom and one side of the platform (left side for the left shoe and right side for the right shoe). I darn this way to ensure I stay on my box and to prevent sickling. After everything is all sewn and darned I will pancake my shoes to match my skin tone (the pointe shoe brand has them in my skin tone but they are considered custom order).

[bemyescape]

I felt so validated when Isabella said she used pas de deux to break in shoes. I've started doing pas de deux classes this year and I found that if I wear too soft shoes, they will die a very quick death. 😆 I also rotate like Suvi, so now I delegate my harder shoes for pas de deux and as they soften I will start using for other classes.

[littlebird]

There is only one brand of elastic insert ribbons that are any good (I've tried them all😅).
In fact, they are amazing. They are thick and sturdy and the elastic doesn't loosen over time. I highly recommend you try them - Gaynor Minden TLC ribbons 👍

[a.phillips]

I only use a little lambs wool, and tape almost every toe. Problem being, I must change my flats to pointe rapidly also, so I tape toes before class begins, then the sweat makes the tape loosen and sometimes come off😟Any solution?

[a.phillips]

I was hoping you both would show your feet in the shoes!

[Daintymeow]

As a beginner, I would love to see close-ups of the shoes when you are describing parts of the shoes. The camera work is pretty bad.

[Zoë-brrv]

Me: watching this but I’m not on pointe ˚⊱🎀⊰˚
By the way my dance company ware Freeds and Bloch

[AdamGNordin]

She's dressed as a 3 year old, so cute ☺️

[mothball]

Over darning that makes the toes mushroom shaped is so ugly. Some very famous dancers do it.