Dancer FEET 😟 #ballet #dancer #biancascaglione #shorts

[helisedi]

I will never need this information but for some reason I'm listening really carefully and memorizing everything 😂

[XxRobinXx]

As a dancer en pointe, I use every one of these products

[Cadence_Noelle]

I’m so used to her being sarcastic I was expecting her to make a joke abt putting you feet in cups or smth 😂😭

[lilnikki]

I grew up in classical ballet and we weren’t allowed to wear toe pads so we soaked our feet in rubbing alcohol to toughen up our skin and help the calluses to form and stay strong. I’m 45 years old and it warms my heart to see dance finally be recognized and celebrated in a way that wasn’t true many years ago except in small circles

[usuallynani]

with so much hype around foot health nowadays, ice skaters and dancers are just quietly in the corner shoving our feet into unforgiving prisons of pain

[mickosmile]

Many schools did not allow toe pads in pointe shoes and we were limited with what was available in stores. Luckily, my feet healed from all the pointe shoe abuse. For a period of time after my feet returned to normal, I couldn't stop marvelling at their normalness.

[melissametivier]

I went en pointe in 1991. Anything other than loose lamb's wool (wrapped around the toes for beginners; a tiny bit in the tip to absorb moisture for anyone more than a few months in) was cheating. So glad things have changed!

[thegennychan]

I did ballet for 16 years. No one would guess it because how cute my feet are. My parents and teachers were adamant about right shoe size and shoe fitting, toe pads, tapping, mole skin... Also ice baths after big shoes. And not dancing on injured feet.

[aeea]

I am not yet on pointe, however my teacher has an interesting view on it :
He's a man but used to practice pointe too, and was soloist at Opéra de Paris ballet company (so the guy knows a thing or two).

He leads pre-pro as well as hobby (not pro) classes, and insists that pointe shoes 🩰should actually NOT be painful AT ALL, that feeling discomfort in them is not a normal thing either : it means your shoe is not the good fit for your case. And that "ugly feet" are caused by not propperly fitted shoes. If the shoe is good for the dancer, then they will not have such problems.
As well, as a teacher he does not force dancers on pointe too early (10-11yo is the French standard), and if one can go on a bit sooner, it is because she has an uncommon strength and mastering of technique allowing to do so safely. He prefers consolidating technique and strength first, because that makes adjusting to dancing on pointe quicker and safer, while preserving dancer's health on the long run. I really appreciate the consideration he has for the dancer's health, whether they are future professionals or adults doing it for fun.

I'm so damm happy to start my ballet journey with him.
And not only he is a great teacher, he also is an amazing human being, I hope you all may encounter such a golden professor in your life.

[simplebeauty]

Whenever you randomly drop normal informative videos it always throws me off for a bit 😂😂

[mermaidopulence]

As a ballet dancer myself every time I see a non dancer talking about how they refuse to take ballet or let their kids take ballet because they don't want their feet to look like how they saw in the pictures I just laugh. People really need to understand that with proper fitted shoes and correct padding your feet won't look like that.

[HereForTheShips]

It's the main reason my mom took me out of ballet when I was 7 because she didn't want me to develop "ugly feet". She said i also liked ballet more than school, so she had to put a stop to it. I've always resented it all my life because ballet was all I wanted.

[opossumsauce]

My great aunt did balet in Russia, back then this didn't exist. Her poor feet were just mangled from endless dancing, no breaks, and poor maintenance. They used to really torture dancers.

[cal]

Another thing, these photos are likely from people who do ballet professionally. They are dancing very often and for many hours at a time. If you are dancing for fun (like I did) you likely won’t be doing it as often as they are, and definitely shouldn’t have as many problems.

[DelphineDenton]

I think a lot of dancers that don't protect their feet are the ones who want to show off the damage so everyone can see how much they're suffering for their art. And those of us who aren't ballet dancers don't necessarily understand that this is largely avoidable. Thank you for explaining.

[tammystiletto]

Taking care of yourself is smart Periodt. Not taking care does not mean you are stronger.

[anikaxmeisel]

Totally!!! Switching my shoe was a game changer. Sometimes the right fit can make a huge difference!

[ineedmoresleep]

Note, a lot of peoples feet get to that point because dancers get paid very little and often have second jobs making care expensive

[smallparticlelinda]

I think dancer feet has an extraordinary beauty to them that can't be appreciated by the naked eye. It represents the dedication and hard work their owners put into their arts.

[mermaidopulence]

I want to clarify another thing. Majority of the pics that are out there are from the older dancers who were dancing en pointe in like the 70's-90's and because the shoes weren't made that great and with most studios not letting dancers wear toe pads (which they hardly had back then) that's why their feet look like that.