pointe shoe fitter reacts to BALLET TIKTOK 29

[@AdriannArkani]

1:05 Josephine: You know, ballerinas really don't have balance. Girl in the next clip: hold my glass

[@mariefromseier]

FRR

[@Mari91692]

lol I genuinely just ran to the comments to post this same thing lol 😂 🤣

[@SilverHart]

All proprioception disappears as soon as we're off stage.

[@xeaux]

@@SilverHartSeriously. Some of the clumsiest people I know are dancers, myself included.

[@SimpleDesertRose]

Let us eat cake 🎂 😂😂 Josephine wants a pointe shoe cake. Someone needs to make it happen for her 😁😉🤣🤣

[@decodolly1535]

I was so over-excited at the idea of a pointe shoe cake. I thought it was going to be a cake in the shape of a pointe shoe. I'm now unreasonably disappointed.

[@shyeahright]

Why not a cake in the SHAPE of a pointe shoe?? 😃

[@SimpleDesertRose]

That's what I was thinking. A cake in the shape of a pointe shoe 😉

[@Joy.Elizabeth]

maybe @Sideserfcakes can make her one that'd be so cool! she makes hyper realistic cakes.

[@hiii8589]

She should collab with Natalie sidesurf

[@wildjamart]

As someone who was told very young that was wasn’t the right type of body for ballet (6 yrs old) and quit, your channel is healing my lil Bebe dancer heart! I started taking dance classes again as an adult and have been having the time of my life!

[@MackenzieNerdyEMT]

I was told the same thing! I was told I was too chubby and not built for it around 6 years old.

[@dajtoad1]

@@MackenzieNerdyEMT OMG - you were told that at 6 years' old???!!! That's sick. Whoever said that should be fired. At 6 years' old, bodies are barely formed. I know you can tell a lot from the feet about whether you will be able to become professional, but I don't think you can do even that at 6 years' old. Eating habits are not yet established. That's a good way to give a small girl an eating disorder for life.

[@C-SD]

I'm sorry you started off with a snob like that and it turned you off to ballet entirely. I was on the other side of that sort of. All the things that are physically wrong with me were the things that got complimented. Once I was told my bunions gave me better balance because it gave a wider space for releve.

[@C-SD]

​@@dajtoad1eating disorders were/are super common in dance and gymnastics. You go about building all this muscle and then are supposed to hide it? While its happening slowly, that is improving.

[@amereaz]

this comment is everything

[@Libby-m5e]

The one video with Mrs. Pool on it she was my old ballet teacher and I love her so much. She’s actually still working at the Royal ballet dance studio in Dallas, Texas and I love her so much it’s unreal. She taught me for like three years and best three years of my life. I recognize that studio so well.

[@goldshield10]

So, disclaimer: not from the US, and not a ballerina. I am a member of a Roller Derby League here in South Africa, and we take pride in the fact that our league cleans and maintains our facilities. We consider it a massive part of the dedication to our craft, our team, our facilities and our management to get down on our knees and scrub floors, wash walls, clean out our skate cupboard and do our own skate maintenance. For the Skater, By the Skater!

[@SpamLamb1]

OK, I just want to know the name of your team! Roller derby seems to come up with the best names!

[@mareiketi1436]

Almost a year ago the algorithm decided that I had to watch your content. I’ve never had any contact to ballet ( except the Barbie movies😂) But because of your videos I saw my first ballet yesterday

[@JMA864]

So cool! And…??? What did you think of your first ballet??? What was it?

[@C-SD]

That's so cool. Its a lot of fun.

[@clarebotags4318]

I have a pointe shoe fitting today with Josephine! I am super nervous but also very excited 😊

[@thewannabegamer9]

How fun!! Good luck!! ❤

[@julianash5500]

Lucky! I've been to California two summers in a row but I didn't get approved for pointe till August so there was no point in getting fitted. If I'm ever back in LA I will definitely want to try to be fitted by her. She's AMAZING.

[@AM-wi9mx]

How was it???

[@clarebotags4318]

@@AM-wi9mx It went amazing and I love my new shoes!!!

[@Playwell.Studio]

Yay congrats hope they fit right!😊

[@宋玉芳]

Josephine slowly but surely losing her sanity is comedy gold 😭 who the hell am i kidding it was gone by like tiktok 10

[@dearestfrances]

About the studio cleaning as a student, it'd be really interesting to hear more about ballet in Korea and the differences between the West and Asia when it comes to approaches to dance. Love hearing about your experiences with both shoes and dancing.

[@albedosimp6166]

Its common in the Asian countries, Even in non-ballet groups or dance troupes here, where I live, the Philippines. We always clean after our dance space before and after we use it, to show respect to the space and be respectful to those who will use it after us if there are anyone else coming in. It adds to the discipline as well.

[@beckettmullen1579]

the tap-pointe shoe hybrid reminds me of Irish dance hard shoes. except we don’t have hard shanks (and we balance on the ‘tap’ of the shoe rather than directly on our toenail). but if you want people doing pointe work in shoes with laces, Irish dance is the genre!

[@SilverHart]

Yess! I miss my hard shoes!

[@laurenm1369]

As a gymnast in the US, we took ballet class at our gym two days/week to help with floor, flexibility etc and we definitely practiced an appreciation for the space with cleaning also the gym. Buttt our dance teacher and coaches were Bulgarian gymnasts

[@heidi_starr]

i love the different expressions and vibes throughout these videos 😭😭

[@probablylola]

I’m 13 and ive been doing ballet for 6-7 yrs, I started really taking it seriously like 2 yrs ago and im even taking advanced lessons. Watching Josephine’s videos bring sm joy to me and gets me excited for when I’ll be going en pointe!! 💗

[@dajtoad1]

Good luck to you! Hopefully pointe not too far off now!

[@probablylola]

@@dajtoad1 tysm for ur kind words!!

[@emmasheehan7923]

I started dancing ballet at 30 after having my first baby and it's really changed my life! I feel stronger and it's so peaceful and calming but fun! Josephine videos encouraged me to try something new, she's always saying it's never too late to start! My dream is to one day get on pointe!

[@doggo_mommo]

When I was in college in 1996, a traveling ballet company came and performed in our theatre. As a theatre major, I was hired to work backstage and help with various things. Some of the ballerinas had such large bunions that they literally drilled holes in their pointe shoes to make their shoes fit better. The ballet was breathtaking and so gorgeous, but the dancers' absolutely wrecked feet is what I remember most nearly 30 years later.

[@AbstractlyMe83]

1- I’m also 29, and I’ll be glad to hit my 30’s, just like I’m excited to see this series continue! 2- I’m in Buffalo, NY, and took Tae Kwon Do when I was a kid. We would wait until sparing or whatever was happening on the mat ended before we would enter the mat. We’d bow to the flags, and to the instructors/black belts. It was a very disciplined sport as well, and didn’t realize it was that close (etiquette wise) to ballet

[@DannyJane.]

Why I love you, Josephine: You grew up. You're an adult. BUT! You are still a little kid with these videos. Funny, scary, amazing, beautiful, or just plain bad you never hold back on your reactions and the best part is you take us along with you! Please keep up making videos. I can't wait till #30!

[@bellelewis8144]

In my ballet studio we have to clean the studio every Sunday, it is a part of our responsibility and it teaches us to take care of things we love

[@annasahlstrom6109]

Mrs. Poole is a retired professional ballet dancer. She was a soloist. I adore her.

[@karinaehoff]

I had a cookie cake decorated with pointe shoes at school for my 16th birthday, one of the other students asked why there were lungs on the cake 💀

[@MommyOfZoeAndLiam]

So the woman with the fans MIGHT have been Miss Mallory who used to be my daughter’s dance teacher and she and a friend of hers started Showgirls Across America and she is online as MalloryJanineDance. I can’t tell from my phone if it is actually her, but it looks like her and she has a costume like that. She teaches and works as a dancer, we live in Vegas so she and Julie make extra money dressing up as showgirls and posing with people on Fremont Street or Meeting People at the Airport (you can also get Elvis) but she is obsessed with incorporating old style showgirl with classical dance training. My kids only took jazz and ballet dance and gymnastics classes for fun but I have fond memories of Miss Mallory she was so good with the kids.

[@ashtaylor4107]

This series will never die. Not like those pointe shoes. It will live on. 😭

[@madisondean1074]

This is what made me want to do ballet and what made me fall in love with it. I was 18 years old and hadn't seen a ballet performance in nearly a decade. I decided I wanted to try some basic exercises used in ballet just for fun. I trained myself using KZbin videos shown by other dancers. I showed a close friend of mine who was a former ballerina (she quit at the age of 13 due to the toxic environment she encountered), and she was shocked at how good I was and pointed out that my feet were extremely strong for someone who'd never taken a dance class before. She eventually took me to get fitted for a pair of pointe shoes as a present for my 20th birthday, and even the fitter was startled by my feet. My first words out of my mouth were, "What's wrong with my feet?" Because my feet are super bendy, I was given a semi-hard shoe. The width was a problem because my feet are also super compressive, so I went with a double x width. My toes are also long and tapered with a wide metatarsal. I still think point shoes with a tapered platform look weird on my feet. So I went with a square platform and added toe spacers to help my feet fill in the extra space. I ordered pointe shoes from Wish just as a display piece to put in my bedroom for inspiration. Now people always freak out whenever they look at my feet because of their bendiness. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@princesskaguya2000]

This series never gets old. i love it.

[@sargassum6190]

Growing up, our ballet studio had rotating chores for senior students. Vacuuming, mirrors, etc. Coastal, southern US. I am in my mid-thirties.

[@mistinarodriguez6570]

I love it when Josephine gets so delighted by the tictoks!

[@anniewallace3601]

My ballet studio if you did anything dirty and disrespectful to the facility we would end up cleaning all the mirrors and the floors. If the person was caught they ended up being the only ones doing it. if not it was everybody does it so we never did anything mean to the facility cause we just want to dance. That should probably be more common practice thing than it is because you definitely appreciate your studio a lot more when you take care of it.

[@YourGranIsBigMad]

"i feel like this is for a child but it is also for me." I totally vibe with that 😂

[@laurakichler7107]

I love this channel so much. I was a competitive gymnast and I feel like it's similar in the level of discipline required but ballerinas literally murder their feet!

[@CheyenneSedai]

You should react to Ballet Reign's 'ballet protagonist' series. It's so hilarious. Right here on KZbin

[@miak6533]

I live in the U.S. and dance and we actually do help clean the studio too! During Nutcracker season we all take turns with someone else to clean the studio after rehearsals to help out!

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

5:45 does anybody know where this clip is from? I want to see more!! Thank you very much for the video! Enjoyed it very much! Happy new year! 🙏🎶🩰🎉🍾🪩🥂🎇

[@CariL92]

The excitement for cake and edible glitter… same 🤣

[@shining_valoka]

Has Josephine seen those weird pointe shoes with no ribbons that I keep getting ads for? They're like... weird They are called Act'ble

[@WantedVisual]

I feel like every ballet season should be celebrated with cake...

[@WowItsAbby]

Someone needs to get Josephine that cake 😂🍰 🎂

[@HaileyAsh-ym1hp]

You need to get a pointe shoe cake for tik tok 30🎉❤😊

[@ClaireR.12]

Someone send Josephine a point shoe cake please 😂

[@JasmineMcDonald]

AHHHH two reactions in one video??! I feel so honoured hahah ❤

[@SouthernArtist77]

Baryshnikov danced in that theatre in the movie White Nights. So cool.

[@gigi.robertsonofficalx]

need more, love these videos x

[@tomergantz6959]

6:30 my favorite is when the teacher pulls your your leg high in arabesque at the pointe that you are in panchayat

[@HOLLEAVE]

FIRST!!! Love these videos ❤ Keep up the great work !!

[@juliarose886]

You were third

[@Anzu.zuzu.]

LMFAO HELP@@juliarose886

[@juliarose886]

@@Anzu.zuzu. pls don’t swear 😊

[@HOLLEAVE]

@@juliarose886 my thing must have glitched then as when I wrote it I didn't see their comments

[@lesliedomler3901]

Even as a "mature" bellydance student, I make it a point to be on time with A.I.S. (a$$ in spot) and if I know I may be a little late from work, I let our teacher know, enter quietly from the back and get it together asap. And ALWAYS thank the teacher. ❤

[@xXSimply_OraXx]

I have a pointe shoe fitting tmr nervous but excited 😂

[@C-SD]

In high school our studio was also a gym class room. We cleaned up after ourselves, but the custodians had to come in even if the room is spotless. Not that it was dirty all the time or something. We weren't supposed to clean the mirrors because my main dance teacher could not stand streaky mirrors. 😂 Of course if we somehow got something on them, gatorade and clumsy ballet students was usually the culprit, we would clean that so he didn't have extra work. Our teacher was also slightly less than formal. Imho its because she was a bodybuilder who switched to dance. She pushed us really hard, but made sure we didn't burn out. I miss her.

[@christineking8860]

Love all your videos. Watched ballet when in my 29, many moons ago. I was in London then. Saw a little Chinese group. It was magic. Now in Hereford and just don't here of ballet here. I'm in late 60's so it's on my bucket list. I dreamed of being ballet dancer but mum couldn't afford it. So we played music and pretended we were our own troupe Magic memories. C

[@DogLover-fp4qn]

You will forever be welcome in England! You inspired me to start dance! Thank you. 🥰

[@PearlMochi-s2v]

This was all I needed today❤

[@milcah7]

Isabelle Ciaravola at 6'. Former Etoile of Paris Opéra Ballet. I miss her so much. She's a great and complet artist. Please watch some of her performances on KZbin.

[@akbt2]

"I thought it was going to be _dégagé_ " 💀 omg riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip 😂

[@MistyNightglow]

Why do I feel as though I see NEIL NEWBORN being in a ballet class? His acting of Astarion is so elegant you would thing he was in ballet one time in his life ❤

[@betseygirard8878]

I love these videos❤

[@upcycledunicorn]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Miss Josephine, lololololol the cake. Laughing til I gasp for air!

[@ritawing1064]

Review of Act'ble pointes, please!

[@JIHYOMACHIN]

I love ballet but I don't know where to start and I can't have classes because of the money and the distance. A long time ago I bought ballet pointe shoes at Shein (just to try them out) I use them with great caution) I bought foot protectors and modified them to that he could see my what has been my arch of the foot, I have made sure I have the correct posture when getting on .

[@miakirilova7255]

Idk, but I find it really funny how at 1:06 she starts talking about dancers' not so great all the time balance, and then the next thing we see at 1:13 is yana_nka8 ruining her point 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-el2nh5uo1w]

There’s balance and then there’s Yana.

[@kate_m_k88]

That remark about dancers and balance wasn’t about dancers lacking balance while dancing but rather that dancers are remarkably clumsy and ungraceful while not dancing, which is honestly accurate as hell, lol.

[@violetnorwen8491]

Me andmy sister clean our ballet studio every Thursday 😊

[@NightWink129]

My legs always struggled to reach my hip height in addagio. 😅 My teacher purposefully made it grueling to "build strength", too, but that never worked. There wasn't much of a stretch n' strength class, unfortunately.

[@beaub2409]

❤❤❤love these

[@Noodledoodle.1-2]

I do tap and what I do for the shoe to arch to my foot is I push around the heel and toe area. Also most tap shoes don’t have a flat platform (based off my tap shoes)

[@ashleywilcock1514]

Oh my gosh I am so happy! 29🎊🎉🥳

[@CircussCake]

I dunno about you, but those wing arms are something I need in my life RIGHT NOW.

[@kikibirdball]

Someone needs to make one of those hyper-realistic cakes to look like pointe shoes for Josephine IMMEDIATELY

[@kshortt65]

We cleaned mirrors and floors in Ottawa, Canada.

[@The_Squirrel_irl]

2:47 The teacher showing her thankfulness Me : seeing the other teachers foot

[@BmaGrl]

Who is the dancer at 8:01?

[@sandybalthaser5197]

EDIBLE GLITTER! 😂 we are the same person, Josephine, ❤️

[@HOLLEAVE]

0:14 this is hilarious 😂

[@Shaaydiia07]

5:52 mean while I’d be in the back on my butt trying to figure out if I’m dancing with to left feet or not 😂😭

[@Cantetinza17]

That exotic, burlesque swan dance was really amazing. I wonder what show that is?

[@famoushollywood]

I still have my toe taps! I did a solo in them! I love it. My costume was a tank top and a tutu lol

[@DancerDude]

Does anyone know where I can find the clip at 5:45?

[@thereseremus6849]

Yes, there is edible glitter. I decorate doughnuts at Krispy Kreme, and everything can be made edible.

[@MadeleineH-d3i]

Omg the balance one! I wish😭

[@balletbunny-m5b]

Hi! I just started pointe in September and found your channel not long after. I love you videos, and I was wondering: What's your opinion on Nikolay VictoryFlex shoes? Those are what I ended up getting and I was curious.

[@Elliana_official]

That looks ✨sOoWfTt✨

[@qiqi_is_best_zombie]

bro like a week before chrismas my mom ever so casually asked if I wanted point shoes... I'm not even in ballet my ankles would break the moment I try to even stand in them...

[@KateCarew]

Your mom needs to do her homework!

[@qiqi_is_best_zombie]

@@KateCarew fr🥲

[@marim0y]

I miss your fitting videos but I would not be mad to see you do a ballet shoe factory tour.

[@julianash5500]

Literally coming to the comments just to ask for thoughts on Gaynors as my second pair of pointe shoes... Once I break them in they will be great in my opinion. My first pair were Capezio Ava's in the regular shank. They were too soft (and they twisted), too squared and the vamp was too low and I was always scared I'd roll over the box. I heard to reduce the pain in my big toe, I could go more tapered. (Not too tapered). I love the look and balance from the square box, but my feet hurt less in the lower crowns and slightly tapered box... If I don't stay in Gaynors what should I look into next?

[@MeIamme-x8n]

I love the costumes there so pretty😊

[@EventingMustangs_official]

I just got approved to go on pointe! I’m so exited! Any tips and tricks you guys have, please tell me! I would like to get fitted my Josephine but we are sadly no where near them.

[@Forrest.123]

I can’t believe your almost at thirty😂

[@Thatgirl67803]

im a company dancer and for halloween each company dresses up as a movie and my company was "barbie and the 12 dancing princesses" i was the one in the red it was really fun cause we did the dance from the movie

[@Vikmarie922]

We clean our Studio too. Non-Korean studio but there is not Cleaner so we clean up the Room

[@carolbydesign]

I have a possible strange question...(mind you I've never danced ballet in my life, so that might factor into my strange question)... Why are um toe shoe boots (by that I mean like toe shoes with skin tight fabric that lets say, goes up to just below the knee) not a thing? Or like toe tights? Because I've watched a lot of stuff on ballet, fiction, non-fiction, documentaries and such and it's often spoken about the line between the foot and leg and the illusion of a long leg (ok, many dancers have long legs anyways), but I would think a toe shoe built into tights or whatnot, would make a seamless line and dancers might not have that back of the heel bunch up/slight slide off look... Sorry, I did warn you it would be a weird question....lol. But I am genuinely curious. Thanks for taking time to answer my question, or if you don't answer, that's ok too, and I hope my weird question makes you laugh a bit.

[@annellle]

if by toe shoe you mean the pointe shoes (which are rather hard by nature) and not the ballet flat shoes (not the street wear ones but the canvas / leather ballet flat sold in dancewear shops), it’s mainly two reasons: 1. many female ballet dancers / ballerinas interchange from flats to pointe shoes within the same class. for example, flats during barre exercises for the first half of class, then pointe during centre work where more turn and jump combinations are practiced. it’s usually just a short break between barre and centre for time for the female dancers to change to pointe shoes if they want to or have to. thus having the pointe shoe (or even a flat shoe, for the same reason) inbuilt into the tights / having a long knee-high sock with the shoe inbuilt wouldn’t be an efficient option, as dancers would either have to take off their entire tights worn with their flat shoes and switch into the “pointe shoe tights” (just to give it a name), or wear the “knee high pointe socks” over their existing tights - still relatively efficient, but may be too stuffy for legs or may be one extra layer between their toes and the floor which they may prefer not to have (often seen amongst pro dancers who prefer to “feel the floor”, which basically just means having less layers between their toe and the bottom of the pointe shoe which directly steps into the floor). 2. pointe shoes are often broken-in / “Frankenstein-ed”. if you’ve watched TPS’ vids for awhile now, you may have come across some TikTok clips of dancers showing all the 10,000 ways that they basically murder their shoe - most notably the ripping off the shank (that thick stiff wood-like thing) from the inner side of the shoe until half of it is off the shoe fabric, and then removing the screw (it’s located around the middle to 3/4 point of the shoe) and then cutting a chunk of the shank off from the heel, so that the shank only comes up to 3/4 or half of their foot, leaving the top part of the foot supported with the shank while the bottom half of the foot hanging onto dear life with refined ankle and feet muscles + tendons, hopes and prayers 😂. these modifications to the shoes have to be done to every shoe, and because each and every dancer has unique needs to make the shoe most comfortable for themselves, the modifications are also very unique. you could line up all the female dancers of a professional ballet company and ask them to show you how they break in their shoe, and little to none of those female dancers would have the same exact same modifications down to the tiniest details, even despite a large cast. just having the shoe, rather than a tight / sock with an inbuilt shoe, allows for the flexibility to do these modifications with ease. there is also the sewing of elastics and ribbons that each dancer does herself. elastic and ribbon lengths and widths, and the way the elastics and ribbons are sewn onto the shoe, which are plenty. for example, elastics can be a single loop around the ankle, criss-crossed over the ankle, criss-crossed slightly lower than the ankle, and even additional elastics across the middle of the shoe over the arch of the foot, or elastics sewn at the vamp of the shoe (the part closest to the toes where you can see the V or U shaped cutting) for more support for too-flexible feet). ribbons are rather standard, but maybe someone wants each ribbon to go around their ankle 2 times for stability, but just once-around works for the next dancer. the options are plenty. as such, the more flexible the better :) it’s interesting you brought up this point though, because just recently i believe a pointe shoe brand called Able to Act came out with a design of their own. it looks more like a sock than the traditional shoe, but it’s still a shoe and i believe the “sock” design focuses on skin-tight stability around the foot and ankle for security. and i think the reason why there’s always this bunched-up-heel thing going on is because when we stand, the shoe (and our foot) is in flex and the entire shoe fills up all the way and looks like the heel could never come off in a million years. but girlies like me with collapsible toes could never hahahah, as soon as we’re on our toes, our feet become “shorter” in length (because our toes are now not fully extended as they would be when standing normally in flex, like in a street shoe), thus it creates the extra gap in the heel area which causes the bunched up look.

[@Алисонькаа]

OUR TEACHER MADE US DO THE WHOLE CLASS THING AND WE WERE DEAD.

[@annia631]

I need to see Josephine’s reaction to Michelle Khare: I trained like a ballerina for 6 weeks

[@shining_valoka]

Didn't she do that already? Or was it someone else?

[@annia631]

I don't think so. She did the try guys.

[@shining_valoka]

@@annia631 she did! But it was 2 years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmeog4mvmdKHeacsi=_mTqM1khEQvsqL5d

[@YazminMahara]

I LKVE THE BARBIE AND THE 12 DANCING PRINCESSS

[@polycatmagic1236]

Josephine: "This is the end of the- Me: nooooooo Josephine: "-twenties" Me: ohthankgoodness

[@rachelc3744]

Does anyone know what the song is at 1:18? For the life of me, I cannot remember and it’s been driving me mad!!

[@ItIsWhatItIs8120]

There still are children raised to beself sufficient and dofor themselves as well as others no matter if there is a janitor ,lunch lady ,or maid,or butler .😊❤

[@summer_vibes4462]

7:35 you should do a cake for the pointe shop’s anniversary

[@justthatcrochetpeep]

I’m literally getting my first pair of pointe shoes in a few days I’m so excited but also nervous, any tips?

[@keirra5096]

I like the last one 😂😂

[@Kazuzi3]

I know it's not nutcracker season anymore, but I think Josephine should react to the urban nutcracker special that was on pbs

[@maevekahler]

OMG I’m a dancer named Maeve and I almost screamed when I saw that cake!! ❤❤ 7:40

[@apjec]

Who is the dancer in black at around the 6 minute mark of the video? So beautiful!

[@KateCarew]

I do not know and it’s maddening

[@jnanise]

That's Isabelle Ciaravola! Former étoile of Paris Opera. The clip looks like "Sur les Pointes avec une Etoile" - Klemm masterclass on YT. I used to watch this for danspiration :)

[@apjec]

@@jnanise thank you! She is so beautiful! I will need to KZbin so I can see more of her dancing.

[@cheftoni55]

Ahhh...the cleaning after class! 😩 Not a ballerina, but went to culinary school & it's the SAME. Utensils, plates, glasses: a warewasher (industrial dish machine), but roasting pans, kitchen appliance parts, pans, pots, tables, stoves, ovens, racks, sheet pans, FLOORS--were the responsibility of the students after a 5 hour class. Yep. Needless to say, the 1 lazy-ass whoo didn't want to help we nearly lynched in the locker room later. What is it the French arts consider it a sign of "respect" to task the students with the maintenance of the training space?? 😅😅😅 It does build character, resilience, & appreciation but...😫

[@madisondean1074]

As a fun fact, I've worn the same Wish pointe shoes I've spoken about. I did not actually dance in them! I just wanted to see what they look like on my feet. Also for the record, even at nearly 21 years of age, I shockingly have natural hyperextensions. But the cake Tik Tok makes me want a ballerina cake for my 21st birthday. I know exactly which ballerina cake I want. The one I have in mind is the same cake from the movie Black Swan. Also, the ultimate birthday present for me would be a pointe shoe fitting done by Josephine. But the problem I have is that I live in Michigan which is over 2,000 miles away from California. I have the money to get pointe shoes, but I will only trust Josephine or one of her employees!