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If you are referring to the shoes that allow ballet dancers to dance on their toes, these are called Pointe Shoes.
That is called dancing on point.More correctly called en pointe.
The soft shoes are known as ballet slippers. The hard shoes that enable you to rise onto your toes are called pointe shoes.
Ballet dancer wear toe shoes, they have blocks of wood inside. The blocks help you to stand on the tip of your shoes.
it is called pointe (or toe, by some people). Pointe shoes allow dancers to dance and stand on the tips of their toes because of the hard box of the shoe. Dancer's feet are also very strong to do this safely and well. And yes, it does hurt (not too badly though)