No they are not.
pointe shoes. toe shoes.
Not for regular ballet but for pointe there is a chance that you could break toes.
Ballet flat shoes are made out of either soft leather or canvas. The box of point/toe shoes is made of layers of fabric and glue, which is then covered by satin.
Toe boxes are the hard part in the toe of a pointe shoes that are used to support the dancer's foot when they dance on their toes.
Russian dancers are made to be put on toe shoes when they are not really ready adn US ballet dancers USUALLY wait. Also European dancers are usually made to be more flexible, and they are MUCH MORE strict! Hope this helps!
Technically, no. Pointe shoes is the correct term used in all ballet companies and methods of training, whereas toe shoes is usually what an outsider or non- dancer says when he or she mean pointe shoes.
For pointe shoes, you also need toe pads and toe seperations, and that comes to about sixty dollars or more. The canvas pre-pointe shoes are usually around thirty dollars. Be aware that you have to sew the straps of the pre-pointe shoes. Normal leather ballet shoes can be from fifteen dollars or less to thirty dollars or more.
"Flat" shoes which are made out of leather or canvas, these are not the shoes you wear to stand on your toes, and then there wre Pointe, or toe shoes which are used to dance on your toes.
That is called dancing en pointe.
Ballet dancer wear toe shoes, they have blocks of wood inside. The blocks help you to stand on the tip of your shoes.
We call the soft shoes well soft shoes and the harder ones you rise up onto pointe shoes (an abbreviation for pointes are toe shoes)hope this helps!