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CelineDion
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I too am a ballerina! Ive actually just started again in all my dancing...i do every kind LOL i love it! I was in an accident that left me partially paralyzed for two years so im back now (praise God) and choreographing and back in classes trying to build back up! But yes i love ballet
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progressivegal
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I'm a ballet dancer too, it's my minor in college right now, plus I teach and take class with the local company when I can. Ballet is my passion!
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I work as a ballett teacher for children ...just 1 lesson per week but they are so cute...4-6 years old and trying to do ballettt...so cute...
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LibertyChic
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I learned some wonderful technique from Rosine Bena. I love to take as well as teach, but I haven't done much of either for a while now. I miss it terribly. I try to do yoga several times a week to stay in shape.
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i took some ballet classes this summer and i loved it...i stopped taking them cuz i had to go back to college...im kinda sad that i cant take them..they were a very affordable price...just the other night i felt nostalgic and put on my ballet gear...just a great feeling...so i put on some music and praised God with some ballet grace lol... its also a great workout..still a bit sore
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I know..had to stopp last year too because I had my final exams at school and was in a ballett school where we had at least 2 lessons each day (including saturday and sunday where we were training for our performance). In the second term it was then up to 4-8 lessons a day depending on the day...so i had to quite in order to get good marks in my finals...it wasn't easy and i still miss it...but at least I'm working as a ballett teacher now...
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Anybody want to gripe about sewing pointe shoes with me? I'm a horrible seamstress and the only time I ever sew a thing is when I put on my ribbons and elastics. I recently sewed two pairs at once at it took several hours, pathetic I know. That included taking the satin off the platforms though, which is always quite difficult though so I'm not a completely pathetic individual.
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I always glue on some leather at the platform...with strong glue that's ok and you don't skid that easy...I've never tried to get the satin off....you might have to wait some time till the glue has dried but it normally doesn't take longer than 24 hours...
Concerning the sewing....I don't know a thing about that..my mum always sewed my shoesand if there was something getting loose I just took a stripe of Leukoplast (whatever that is in English...this thing like plaster which we also used to put it round the toes so we don't get blisters) and sticked the things together....
Concerning the sewing....I don't know a thing about that..my mum always sewed my shoesand if there was something getting loose I just took a stripe of Leukoplast (whatever that is in English...this thing like plaster which we also used to put it round the toes so we don't get blisters) and sticked the things together....
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progressivegal
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I might just try the leather Idea nextime, I know some people who use moleskin, but that just didn't seem to appealing to me. My mom used to sew my shoes when I was younger, but since I don't live with her now I don't think she would. Enjoy it while you can!
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LibertyChic
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I usually hammer the snot out of my shoes...that and moleskin. I've never removed or resewn the satin. I wouldn't know where to begin with that...lol. How is it done?
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LibertyChic said:
I slit it with scissors, then pry it up a bit with fork of just my fingers, then just keep cutting and pulling until he platform is satin-free.
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LibertyChic
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progressivegal said:
So basically, you are just removing the satin from the end? Where does the sewing part come in?
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LibertyChic said:
Oh, no sewing for that, the sewing just referred to the ribbons and elastics.
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ballet for the past 3 years and hoping to get good enough for a professional schoool.
I have the basic body placement, can do the "Beginner #2" level on pointes, but didn't succeed in going up a level yet, because there is no transition phase for adults. It's just really difficult to do a pas de bourré à la seconde, when it differs from all the regular pas de bourrés I know how to do, and there is nobody to explain it to me...
I have a question: Once I was taking a class of contemporary, and saw the bare feet of this one girl I know takes ballet in more advanced ballet classes. They looked terrible. They didn't have a single bruse blisters or blood. no. That wasn't the problem. She had huge over developped bones- the bone that is above the big toe, you know what I mean? It was double, tripple size. Do you who do pointes have that? Is it something that comes from doing it when you are too little? Or is it universal? (will I get that?) Is it painfull? On her it looked to me that when she was on point it was probably painless for her toes, and probably no slipping in the box, but I was wondering if it hurt otherwise.
Well, now that I have 3 weeks vacation, I think I'm going to give the more advanced class a try. The last time I tried, I could only do the bar, and couldn't do the ronde-de-jambe-developpé, and made plenty of mistakes. After that, au millieu, I could folow the Adage and some of the other exercises, but kept making mistakes, not to speak of steps I don't know how to do (pas de valse en tournant) or steps I can't do (tour en attitude). Usually by the second class of the week I could follow with much less mistakes, and only the third lesson a week would I show progress. Well, one day, an old lady who does these classes tried to help me and told me that I should do some beginner classes, it would give me the right placement etc, and then I'll have an easier time in the more advanced class. I got so angry, I yelled at her, made a scene, made a fool of myself. And then I realised that the advanced classes are too difficult if I'm only going to go once or twice a week. I need three times a week and understanding from others. And I don't have time to do enough during Uni. So I went back to beginner, this time wearing pointes, and did everything right, except for the pirouettes and not doing the piqués fast enough. But that will come with time.
I have the basic body placement, can do the "Beginner #2" level on pointes, but didn't succeed in going up a level yet, because there is no transition phase for adults. It's just really difficult to do a pas de bourré à la seconde, when it differs from all the regular pas de bourrés I know how to do, and there is nobody to explain it to me...
I have a question: Once I was taking a class of contemporary, and saw the bare feet of this one girl I know takes ballet in more advanced ballet classes. They looked terrible. They didn't have a single bruse blisters or blood. no. That wasn't the problem. She had huge over developped bones- the bone that is above the big toe, you know what I mean? It was double, tripple size. Do you who do pointes have that? Is it something that comes from doing it when you are too little? Or is it universal? (will I get that?) Is it painfull? On her it looked to me that when she was on point it was probably painless for her toes, and probably no slipping in the box, but I was wondering if it hurt otherwise.
Well, now that I have 3 weeks vacation, I think I'm going to give the more advanced class a try. The last time I tried, I could only do the bar, and couldn't do the ronde-de-jambe-developpé, and made plenty of mistakes. After that, au millieu, I could folow the Adage and some of the other exercises, but kept making mistakes, not to speak of steps I don't know how to do (pas de valse en tournant) or steps I can't do (tour en attitude). Usually by the second class of the week I could follow with much less mistakes, and only the third lesson a week would I show progress. Well, one day, an old lady who does these classes tried to help me and told me that I should do some beginner classes, it would give me the right placement etc, and then I'll have an easier time in the more advanced class. I got so angry, I yelled at her, made a scene, made a fool of myself. And then I realised that the advanced classes are too difficult if I'm only going to go once or twice a week. I need three times a week and understanding from others. And I don't have time to do enough during Uni. So I went back to beginner, this time wearing pointes, and did everything right, except for the pirouettes and not doing the piqués fast enough. But that will come with time.
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Multi-Elis said:
I don`t have that...and I've never seen an other dancer who had that....the worst I've ever got from pointe shoes was a lot of blisters (you where able to see the bone once - was standing on pointe a lot that day and forgot to put something inside my shoes to make me stand more confortable
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So you generally don't put anything? I wear the cheapest pointes on the market... they are so tuff that I need to put rubber protectors, but I need tuff shoes.
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Well...normally I do put something in but I forgot those things at home that day....so I had to do without...and it was the last time I got blisters...afterwards I never got some again...
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