For different people, shoes die in different ways. I know when my shoes are dead when the shank (kind of like the sole) is too flexible and is over bending and/or the box (the tip of the shoe) is very mushy. Sometimes, the box dies first and that mushiness causes over bending in the shank and sometimes the shank goes first which makes the box mushy. It depends really.
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you can tell when a pointe shoe is dead is when the tip starts to rip, and the bottom starts to turn really black!!
"En pointe" refers to dancing in pointe shoes. Non-pointe ballet shoes are demi-pointe shoes, and the dancing is "en demi-pointe".
Ballet shoes are either slippers for practising or pointe shoes. Which, after a girl goes through pre-pointe possibly for one year, they can get pointe shoes then perform pointe! Guys do where ballet slippers but they do not go on pointe
for starters, by a pointe shoe with a harder shank. or after you use your pointe shoes, put newspaper inside then. These are guarantied to expand the life of your pointe shoes.
Hi, Demi-Pointe shoes are safe as long as they are used correctly! They are not to be used to go on pointe in, demi-pointe shoes are designed to allow budding ballet dancers who are strengthening their ankles to experience the sensation of pointe shoes!