🩰 How to balancé in pointe shoes Balancé is a graceful waltz step, and we have three techniques to perform it with elegance and precision. Option 1: Low and Swift Position your back foot as if stretching your arch, keeping the ankle as close to the floor as possible. Step onto it lightly, without transferring your full weight. The front foot stays grounded, creating a gentle "touch and fall" motion. This version is ideal for quick balancés. Option 2: Relevé First Begin with a relevé on your fro

Begin Again: Finding My Perfect Pointe Shoe

A ballet doesn’t arrive onstage by magic—it’s built, piece by piece, by real people; our choreographers, our dancers, a musicians, and you! This January we commissioned new choreography by @jac_long and an original score, by @katieejenks . Now we need you to help carry it to the mainstage in June at @theconradlajolla You can underwrite: ✧ a dancer contract ✧ the choreographer’s creation time ✧ costumes & pointe shoes ✧ elements of the new music Every gift becomes something you will see and hear