What is the shank on a pointe shoe?

for starters, by a pointe shoe with a harder shank. or after you use your pointe shoes, put newspaper inside then. These are guarantied to expand the life of your pointe shoes.

Pointe shoes are made of paper mache, satin to cover the shoe and a plasticy surface for the shank.

There isn't a definition of pointe shoe because it is an English word. The real word that is french for "pointe shoe" is sur la pointe which means on top of pointe.

The Gamba brand pointe shoes are made with a carbon fiber shank. I use them because I kill a Grishko "2007" extra hard shank in 3 hours. They are not the prettiest of shoes, and some teachers don't prefer them but if you need a strong shoe I recommend these.

Long explantion of pointe shoe history (skip this if you already know about pointe shoes ) I haven't heard anything about ballet shoes (canvas or leather soft shoes) changing besides companies maybe finding better (lighter and more durable) materials to make them out of. Pointe shoes on the other hand are consistently changing. Originally, pointe shoes used to be made out of wood and very hard materials. This was okay at the beginning of pointe work just because dancers didn't have the feet and strength dancers have today. Over time though, the pointe shoe has become relatively soft compared to its ancestors. Now pointe shoes are made of layers of fabric and paste. This allows the pointe shoe to be softer and more flexible. New advances in pointe shoe technology Gaynor Minden Recently new advances in pointe shoes include a flexible plastic shank introduced by the pointe shoe company Gaynor Minden. They advertise this new shank as long lasting and a pointe shoe that it has the feeling of an already broken shank (leather sole that supports the foot). I personally know a girl who has amazing feet and has worn both Russians and Gaynor Minden pointe shoes. She said that Gaynor's really require a lot of foot strength via the flexible shank, versus the Russians which have support, but die easily. Nike The most interesting advancement in pointe shoes (and probably why you wrote this question) is Nike's concept idea of a sport pointe shoe. Released last year, this concept sports a black pointe shoe made of some durable, yet flexible material that can supposedly last way longer than normal pointe shoes. As i said earlier, this is a CONCEPT. As we have seen this year, Nike has already started to dabble in the dance field, by introducing their "Studio Wrap" shoes. If Nike indeed decides to pursue this concept, I think there will a lot of resistance. Ballet is know as a graceful and classical sport/art form, and bringing in a modren looking shoe might upset people. In addition, most pointe shoe companies have been making pointe shoes for around a hundred years. This has lead to multiple versions of pointe shoes and extensive knowledge of the pointe shoe. Unless Nike gets some very knowledgeable pointe shoe manufactories on its side, I think no dancer will take the product seriously.

The first pointe shoe dancer was Marie Taglioni.

You can go to Berry's Capezio.com...... I would highly recommend Grishko Exam Pre-Pointe with no shank, Beautiful shoe and helps a lot with learning the basic feel of pointe shoes.... They can be a pretty penny but it's worth it :) -Doing ballet for 3 years

a pointe shoe is a shoe used in ballet to give the illusion of effortlessness. althought it can be painful, pointe dancing is beautiful and graceful. a pointe shoe is made of plaster, glue, satin, and many other things. search "the making of pointe shoes" on youtube.com and there are some great videos.

The vamp is the part on a pointe shoe, which can be altered depending on the length of a girl's toes. The vamp is the front part of the shoe. To be more visual, if you were standing on a pointe shoe, the front of your foot/toes would be touching it.

Normally, you get a new pair when your old ones are dead (the shank broke/ the box is not hard anymore) or you get some new ones when you grow out of them (obviously. but hopefully your pointe shoe will be dead by the time your foot grows a whole size larger...)

when they are brand new you simply grab the inside of a scissor and start to scratch the box of the pointe shoe.

if you have a high instep you are better off with a harder shoe unless you want to break your ankle. you will break a soft/flexible shoe in no time. bottom line: go with a harder shoe. you can basically get any shoe with a harder shank. try freeds or Russian pointes

It is a softened pointe shoe used to practice before graduating to real pointe or a movement that develops into dancing on one's toes.

you can tell when a pointe shoe is dead is when the tip starts to rip, and the bottom starts to turn really black!!

the pointe shoe was invented in 1820 by Charles digelot

really any kind of pointe shoe is good just make sure u get fitted

To get the sound out of pointe shoes, you must smack them very hard against the floor. This will then take most of the noise out of the pointe shoe. However, you must not give too much force or else you will snap the pointe shoe in half.

Pre pointe shoes are toe shoes with a soft shank. u may go up on these shoes but not enough for full support.

ballet dancers enable themselves to rotate or 'pirouette' on her toes by the use of very helpful pointe shoes. Pointe shoes are made of a soft material at the heel, but at the 'vamp' (where your toes begin) a slight wooden material is used to make a flat surface on the box or shank of the shoe. This is why ballerinas can rise 'en pointe' as we dancers say

yes you can at the size 1 pointe shoe shop that specialises in size 1 pointe shoes in honululu

It is a ballet term, meaning "to stand on the toes" This is achieved using a special kind of shoe crafted for this, called a "pointe shoe" pointe">pointe -noun,_plural_pointes">-noun, plural pointes 1.the tip of the toe. 2.a position on the extreme tips of the toes.

chacott if that is how you spell it

For different people, shoes die in different ways. I know when my shoes are dead when the shank (kind of like the sole) is too flexible and is over bending and/or the box (the tip of the shoe) is very mushy. Sometimes, the box dies first and that mushiness causes over bending in the shank and sometimes the shank goes first which makes the box mushy. It depends really.

There are a bunch of sizes by width and length so you'll have pointe shoes that are made for you! Well first off you will have to have a good enough arch to actually go up on pointe. I am a size 7 1/2 in street shoe and my pointe shoe size is 5 1/2 so pointe shoes say they are 2 sizes down, ( but still the same length of shoe ). You will probably try on many different types of brands and sizes to figure out what shoe sreally fits you. You should probably have a professional pointe shoe sizer so you can get the best out of your pointe. Hope this helped!

Toe boxes are in pointe shoe and they support the weight of the dancer when She goes en pointe.