How Ballet Pointe Shoes Are Made | The Making Of 

Shoemakers: We make high quality shoes that ballerinas can succeed in. Ballerinas: *Destroy the shoes so that I can dance in them*

i love how pointe shoes are delicately hand-crafted and the first thing dancers do when they get them is beat the shit out of them

0:54 let me correct you: -the shank -the box -the satin -i think it’s the draw string idk what it’s exactly pointing at 🤷🏼‍♀️ edit: someone told me that the last thing pointed at is the vamp :) oh and ty for the likes

They didn’t mention that those shoes are typically made for a specific ballerina, if you’re a principal Freed’s has your shoe preferences on file and your shoes are made unlike any other ballerina’s shoes.

This video is missing sooooooo many aspects of how pointe shoes are made...

when i saw “the sole” i may have screamed..... thE SHHHAAAANNNNKKKKKKK

I feel like some modern ingenuity and/or technology could make some serious improvements to the longevity and flexibility of these shoes.

Love how it’s called the “sole” instead of the “shank”

Lol I don't know why but Soul Puncher sounds very scary, either that or a cool superhero name💁

Did they say ten pointe shoes a week?!? Omg imma stick to some half soles 😂👌

And to think that this year I will be dancing on pointe. I am going to the shop to get my shoes tomorrow!

They ain’t 30-80 unless you buy them online which isn’t good they are around 120$

aint no quality pointe shoes for 30 bucks

80$ is for their idea, their effort, and their material. Worth it!

This is my first year on pointe and I already have 3 solos on pointe in a performance

I had such hard shoes my second pair and I didn't really break them, I just wore them down until there was no way I could fact in them. I went through two layers of satin, one layer of canvas, a layer of felt like material, before hitting the glue.

I love these shoes and honestly I would buy a pair just for decoration or playing around

When I did ballet ( around grade 5) I got super conscious on the shape of my box. There not a lot of ballerinas in our area, so we were the first to have toe shoes. Since my feet were very wide, I ordered the toe shoes with a wide box, meanwhile my other friends ordered the narrow box. Ever since I felt self conscious, and it led me quitting ballet. I regretted it now, cause I realized that many ballerinas have wide-box toe shoes. Nevertheless, toe shoes are very expensive, due to me having strong feet, I could easily soften a pair in just about a month, which could be very expensive in replacing for a new one.

i love ballet and everything about it

Josephine also approves this episode! 🩰🩰🩰🥰

This makes me happy(on the way of picking up one of fave cousin from the airport).

Such beautiful work

Interesting... my ballet teacher showed up this before we moved on to pointe... :3

I've always wanted a pair of these..since I was little I've walked around on the tips of my toes, it just seems natural...but obviously after a while it gets painful. I would wear them around the kitchen 😁

This was beautiful

After seeing all these ballet videos I’m debating doing ballet again because it was fun

Wow, I never knew how they made it and now I know how they put hard work on them

*This is the only video from insider that we exactly looked up*

Can you make a video on how gymnastics grips are made?

I want one of those Maybe one day i will get them.

What the name of this on 0:14 ? What the itens for made this?

I love ballet :))

COOL!!!

I love ballet its my life

Me too, and I am planning to become one, starting with finding a studio first. I am practicing at home, but I want to become professional, so I must find a studio

Props to everybody that uses point shoes

The thing about 10 pairs of pointe shoes is wrong actually that’s only if they have performances, also no you can’t make pointe shoes less painful, you can’t put foam in them it’d be harder to dance in them and lastly thank you for acknowledging that ballerinas work very hard and not to mention that ballet is a physical and mental sport and art

...still have a pair of mine and they still fit

Im getting my pointe shoes in level 3.2, in a few months!

0:54 YOU DID NOT JUST CALL IT THE TOE BOX!

I was a dancer as a girl. Had a pair of Pavlova's (which didn't fit so well) and 2 pairs of Capezio's that fit my feet like a glove.

IT IS CALLED THE SHANK NOT THE SOLE

I got a pair of Leo's Brand Pointe Ballet Slippers for less than $30.00. Of course that was back in 1974, while in High School, in Wisconsin.

And I wear these!!

I've always wanted to put on toe shoes, and I'm going to be able to next year! 😀😀

Wow

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the sole of a pointe shoe called the shank?

As a ballet dancer who is on pointe myself, the number one question people ask me when they see me in point shoes is "is there wood at the bottom of your shoe?" I think the next time someone asks me that I'll just show then you this video. Even though not all pointe shoes are created like this, they're all some what similar

I was going to go into pointe classes, but my teacher said they didn’t make commercial shoes my size and I would have to custom order them or something and it was super expensive, so that was 11 years of ballet wasted 🙃

Hello everyone! I am a ballerina! I don't have my pointe shoes yet, but my teachers said I'm ready and will be getting them later this year! (After the new dance year starts, in about September or so) I'm really excited to be going through the next step in my ballet career!! Is anyone else here a dancer?

This wasn’t just uploaded. I saw it on their channel 3 months ago.

I can even do ballet dance. I am a middle pro

I've been in ballet for 8 years and I have not gotten my point shoes yet but I will get them from capezio

Man...will always remember my first pair of pointes...I broke my toenail, and it was so damn painful!! But now I’m fine. (I guess.)

No one going to notice how expensive this all is? They can go through 10 pairs a week and they cost from $30-$80. So at a little under the middle, say they are $50, ten shoes for $50 is $500 a week. Take 52 weeks in a year times $500. 26k a year just for the shoes...

I feel like they needed to show more info on how the paste is applied? Or how does it work? They show the paste in the mixer, then talk about layers of fabric. I still don't understand that part.

Whoa so cool

Ballet is one of the most metal sports

The fact that they went through all this trouble to make the video but dumbed it down for ya'll. Lmaooo

When I was a professional ballet dancer I was going through way more than 10 shoes a week...

great

only $30-$80? are they custom made because my studio has a professional pointe show fitter that comes in and my shoes are usually around $120...or maybe it's just where i live

Anyone else watching this on point???Just okkk

Does anybody know the song from the beginning ?? It sounds super pretty and I want to know if it’s a real song

it’s called a shank not a sole, and they didn’t talk about vamps either?

This was uploaded a second ago and I'm 12th.

❤️🔥

Sound?

Yo, so what the heck is this video even about? I found myself jamming out the whole time. Some dank Tunes.

I respect the hardships every ballerinas went through. Like, stamdimg on your tippy toes with your nails falling off hurts like fvck

I get them by my house in Miami

اريد واحدة من هذه التحذية احببتها

Can you do Ice skates next? Or ha e you already done it and I haven't seen it lol

"A Ballerina can go through 10 pointe shoes a week" Ha ha....thats some major bulls hit We use the pair until they're completely dead

Pretty

i need one

what about the the shank, vamp, and wings??? Just saying I think those are better things to talk about rather then the fabric! 😂😂

It’s not actually called a sole it’s called a shank

how can we get the ballet shoes in Nepal?

Cool

hey guys! lets wait for mawa J mayne to comment

I do poine. Is fun being tall.

Plz make a video how is root canal done

The feeling of new shiny shoes and they are destroyed afrer a week. I kept most of mine

ses cool

How do they not break their toes gos

So interessant

Doesnt that hurt? And how do you balance when basically your whole body is on the tip of your big toe?

Ay want a ballet point shoes

I have pointe shoes

I go through like 12 pointe shoes a week...

Actually pointe shoes range from $80 to $130

So they completely "destroy" several shoes a week or do they only have a fair collection of shoes?

Looks very hard and intense

Now I know where mine come from...

WHY DIDNT THEY SHOW THE BOX??? Ugh. I cannot find a video anywhere that just shows me what the box looks like. Why is it such a mystery.

Where can I get it in Nigeria

I wanna learn ballet so bad. But I think I'm too late because you should start at 3/4 and I'm 11 soooo I'm not flexible

where the heck are yall getting pointe shoes for 30-80 bucks

Where on earth can you get $30 pointe shoes????