I’ve always loved to dance. I remember wanting to do ballet already as a five year old, but since I was an active child, doing lots of others competetive sports – my parents never put me in ballet class. When I was seventeen I made my own decision to try ballet, and I did. The class in particular was called floor barré, witch can be explained as ballet on the floor. It reminded me of pilates a little bit, but with the feeling of ballet.
I then got to try real ballet, and from there I loved it. I danced several years, and accually got the permission before covid to start pointe work, but due to lockdown the class was dismissed. Fast forward to now, I had my first pointe class in march! I got my shoes from the new dance store in Porvoo, personally fitted by a proffessional. For people who doesn’t know ballet, you accually have to be fitted for your pointe-shoes. You cannot just order a pair of shoes that’s a size 38 or else, even if that’s your normal shoe size. You have to look in for how hard or soft your shoe is, how you get over the ”box”, and for example how narrow your shoe is. There is a lot of different brands of pointe shoes, and I got a beautiful pair of capezio Ava shoes. You also need to sew the ribbons and elastics by yourself, and it took me forever, since I didn’t know what I was doing.
Pointe shoes overall are really pretty. But it’s accually a lot harder to dance on these than it seems. I hold onto the barré for my life the first time i stood in these, and it will take a LOT of work before I can do anything in the center.
Capezio Pointe-shoes, the Ava style
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