Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Pointe shoe quiz August 3, 2010


What visible modification has this dancer made to her pointes?

3 comments:

  1. It almost looks like she added some sort of material in the vamp.

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  2. Yes Eric, that's it. Good for you! The material is called a vamp extension and provides additional support for working far over the front edge of the platform when en pointe as Alessandra Ferri of ABT used to do.

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