# This is french, they r called artu'e quenatros
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Ballet shoes or Pointe shoes
The soft shoes are known as ballet slippers. The hard shoes that enable you to rise onto your toes are called pointe shoes.
If you are referring to the shoes that allow ballet dancers to dance on their toes, these are called Pointe Shoes.
It hasn't, ballet has always had a barefoot component. In some styles it's called lyrical or barefoot or poetic, but it's all based on the principles of ballet
There are two main types of ballet shoes: leather or canvas slippers (often called 'flats') and pointe shoes (with a stiffened tip).