The vamp is the part on a pointe shoe, which can be altered depending on the length of a girl's toes. The vamp is the front part of the shoe. To be more visual, if you were standing on a pointe shoe, the front of your foot/toes would be touching it.
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The vamp of a ballet or pointe shoe is the very end of the shoe. Not the tip, but the part that covers your toes. Getting the right sized vamp for the length of your toes is very important when fitting pointe shoes.
A shank in a pointe shoe is basically the backbone of the shoe. The puropse for a shank is to support the arch of your foot while on pointe.
The first pointe shoe dancer was Marie Taglioni.
a pointe shoe is a shoe used in ballet to give the illusion of effortlessness. althought it can be painful, pointe dancing is beautiful and graceful. a pointe shoe is made of plaster, glue, satin, and many other things. search "the making of pointe shoes" on youtube.com and there are some great videos.
when they are brand new you simply grab the inside of a scissor and start to scratch the box of the pointe shoe.