On Pointe
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Avery Trufelman
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The pointe shoe is a design that balances at the very tip of both tradition and innovation. What can make it change?
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| 0:00.0 | Don't mind my feet. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:03.0 | They're so intense. |
| 0:04.0 | They're so intense, I know. |
| 0:06.0 | Amanda Smith's feet are just different from any feet I've ever seen. |
| 0:11.0 | Sometimes I'm like, wow, these, well this is my foot. |
| 0:15.0 | Her calluses are so defined that her footprint would look like a puppy's paw. |
| 0:21.0 | So these are like old blisters that calloused over throughout the years. |
| 0:28.0 | And this is just my handy dandy bunion. |
| 0:31.0 | That's always there. |
| 0:33.0 | Some days I can feel my bunion pulsating and it's wild being a ballerina. |
| 0:39.0 | It is wild being a ballerina. |
| 0:42.0 | The working hours are wild. |
| 0:44.0 | The amount of discipline is wild. |
| 0:47.0 | But the wildest part of Amanda's job is what she physically does with her body. |
| 0:54.0 | I talk to people and they're like, so you really dance on your toes all day long. |
| 0:57.0 | They're like, you tippy toes. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm like, yes, my tippy toes. |
| 1:01.0 | And it sounds really cute, right? |
| 1:03.0 | Like, oh, tippy toes. |
| 1:05.0 | But the first time Amanda started dancing on her tippy toes, she wasn't quite ready for what it would actually be like. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, it was not an if-on-experience. |
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