The Perfect Shoe ft. Kaori Nakamura
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Did you know Principal Dancer, Kaori Nakamura goes through 3 pairs of pointe shoes during 1 performance of The Sleeping Beauty?
Find out how she defines a perfect pointe shoe.
EDIT: Kaori retired from a 17-year career at PNB at the age of 43, read more: bit.ly/1mDrCDv
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"It's very painful on my toes... everywhere. But that's okay." Lol... I think that perfectly sums up every ballerina's feelings. Couldn't of said it better myself. That's how I respond when my mom winces seeing me en pointe and constantly asks me why I do it. The pain is totally worth it. Kaori is such a beautiful dancer and I am so sad to see her go.
Well you are quite wrong. It does not sum up every ballerina's feelings. By the way, it should be, "Couldn't have said it...." Now to my point. Some dancers have no pain at all. You could never guess from their feet that they are dancers. They have perfect feet for pointe and impeccable technique. Other dancers do not have ideal feet and have problems. Others don't have great technique so have issues on pointe. Wrong feet and bad technique will both result in pain, mangled feet and other physical issues.
Dancers who make it to the top of their profession these days in the main don't have huge issues with their feet. They would never be able to perform the very difficult and complex moves that top ballerinas perform today.
Having said that, of course, a series of difficult and continuous pointe work may result in aching feet, just as a series of extra hard exercise, centre work, or new choreography can result in temporary stiffness and aching muscles.
The great thing about pointe shoes today, is the numerous brands and varieties within those brands, constructed with the latest technology. The difficulty is in sorting them all out, finding the right brand and sub-brand for you and making sure one's technique is as best as it could possibly be for pointe work.
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I agree with Theodore. Every dancer will have pain at least once throughout there career. Idk what you're talking about...
@@itsmarco6340 Neither does she.
Most of the dancers in the companies I have danced with, both in Europe and the US, cut down their shanks. I do it because I have very high arches and cutting the shank (cutting out the back 1/3) allows the remaining shank to better support my foot and actually extends the lifespan of the shoe. Other dancers with lower arches cut down the shank to give their feet a better line and the appearance of higher arches. I will emphasize that this is only recommended for advanced students or pros because you need very strong feet and solid technique to dance en pointe with less than 3/4 of a shank.
There is nothing in the world more beautiful than a pointe shoe
I agree 100%!
EnglishRose719 nothing in the world as painful either😂😂. Jk
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Pointe work actually isn't as painful as you might expect. So I'm sure there are plenty of things *much* more painful.
Live on Pointe I was being facetious. I know Pointe actually doesn’t hurt that bad if you have good shoes and padding. I love being en pointe.
Elegant Panda53 Oh so do you think your mother hasn't got that much pain ,like you were wearing pointe shoes, at your birth huh?
It is such a pleasure to see an expert discuss her craft and to read the knowledgeable comments below. Thank you all for insight into the work of ballet.
She has very arched feet and strong feet as well, from such a long career, so I'm sure for her cutting the shank serves a purpose. (Otherwise why would she?)
Sidra Sajid it makes shoes last longer and arch more
I could never imagine having shoes that soft. My feet would die before I finished.
Hell there's not a whole lot of shoe left to support her foot when she's done preparing them. She must have amazingly strong feet!
wow! she started en pointe at 8?? that's really impressive, she seems like a very professional dancer!
Joella it's dangerous because your feet aren't done growing yet!
actually I always think that but I should be positive in life more.... I already said what I wanted to...
Joella like I said, it's dangerous. it doesn't matter if you're strong enough. Your feet aren't done growing until around 12y/o, any earlier and you could end up with deformed get abs never walk again
Tierra Nauman like I said... I KNOW... I always think about that but people are really strict and I just wanted to say it was impressive, and I agree I didn't start pointe till I was 12 and my feet were well developed and I also worry about other people.. just be a little less strict with this, someone might've forced her to do it and I kinda am mad that someone would let her do it but I mean even tho it's an average age to develop (12) doesn't mean everyone is average... soooo... don't take it out on me... I wouldn't dare force her to do this or allow her to... you should write to her parents or dance teacher... just saying.
Tierra Nauman you’re actually wrong. Your feet don’t need to be fully done growing I have no clue who told you that. You have to have strong enough feet yes, but you don’t absolutely need to be 12 or older. It depends on the person. Most girls go en pointe at around 11.
I watched her final performance before she retired in Seattle a few years ago. She was an absolutely stunning Giselle!
me, too. she is my teacher now for open class. she has super strong feet and uses them SO WELL even being 'retired' - she is as kind as she is a lovely dancer. we are lucky to have had her as a dancer in Seattle!
I was lucky enough to have her come to my ballet school and teach us a couple days
Cynthia Goes Moo wooow, you are so Lucky!! How was she?
Where is your school?
This video describes every ballerina's relationship with her pointe shoes perfectly!
I love the way she talks and how she explains everything :) one of my favorite pnb ballerinas ever
this video is beautiful. i love hearing her talk about loving dancing despite the pain, and at the end when she's dancing in front of the window with all of the snow, its beautiful. goes very well with the music and cinematography as well. i love this.
I love how articulate her feet are :3
1:26 good shit
I hope all her shoes and performances are great.
am I the only one that winced when she snapped her shank? haha
I did too I don't like killing shoes like that before I use them
Natalie Haro same. I wouldn't feel supported at all
No I completely cringed when she broke it! It's great that she knows exactly how she likes them but it hurts to hear it snap!
Omg same, I guess she has really strong feet :D
Do your research and get to know professional ballet. She has strong feet to handle half shank and breaking it is how she gets her feet to look this beautiful on fresh pointe shoes for performance. It’s common for advanced students to also break their shank to get a better arch line. It’s only done if the shoe shank doesn’t hug against the arches well, like a stiff Russian Pointe or Grishko brand. I cut and break/bend my shanks this past year on Grishko 2007’s above my arch line, made me balance better and can get over the platform in second position. Only recommend it if your teacher advises, otherwise stick with 3/4 shanks that many shoes offer. Don’t butcher your pointe shoe for the sake of experimenting.
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I keep watching this! Idk why but its just inspiring to me 😍😍😍
Beautiful
DAMN SHE COMPLETELY RIPPED THE SHANK APART WHOO
I’m a non-dancer and just love to watch and as such I’m sitting here thinking ‘OMG YOU’RE DESTROYING THOSE BEAUTIFUL NEW SHOES!!’ 😂
Fairly Vague new shoes do not bend whatsoever. You can’t do anything in them until you break them in.
New shoes are like little coffins for your feet so that has to happen but most times not to that extream it is normal to bend them a little though
I have never seen a ballerina completely break the shank before, usually that happens after they have danced in them.
She goes through shoes very quickly. They generally break them in, wear them for a class and then they are ready for a show.
But with how hard she is on the shoes it's no wonder she goes through 3 pairs for one show.
+choirkitty She does that because especially with sleeping beauty, she prefers a very soft shoe
She's so beautiful
Fantastic. I love ballet
As a person who likes a rather hard shoe (I usually just bend the shank back and forth a bunch and step on the box), that was almost painful to watch. 😂
Joyce K I literally do anything to them, I just spend a whole day in my house walking on them to soften them up, but besides that nop... It was really painful to watch, yeah😂
And I also can't spend that much money on shoes, and since my feet are too strong, my grishko's nova just last a month or so
I wish I could do ballet :'(
you can!!
You guys are so kind, but I can't because I have got an knee injury and it would be really irresponsible for me do do ballet
+Lisa H So recover and do it then, get some light weights and build up your strength in it, can't never got anyone anywhere :D
I know. no matter how much strengthening I do for my ankles, they're not strong enough for ballet.
Beautiful!
Ё кйтаи
I cut my shank too, but only 3/4 not half, and soften the box in the hard spots with a few sprays of my little bottle of water not a hammer!😂 no cuts in the outside shank and I do saw back the sole lining with a couple stitches at the heel for a softer feel on my heel, glue doesn't do the trick it would bunch up and cause a bump at the 3/4 shank.
Ballerinas are SOOO hardcore and I respect the living hell out of them
Tell that to every person at my school I'm relentlesly teased and made fun of because I dance and have to decline invitation to hang out with friends they all say that I need to get a life but dance is my life and they don't get how hard it is and how much pain I go through they say that it is so easy
thats so pretty, amazing feet!
I love ballet and am going to audition for PNB next year!
my toes don't hurt at all, the back sides of my heel do
I always brake my shanks, and go through about three pairs a week
I really want pointe shoes so badd
Kyra Potato It takes high perseverance and pain tolerance to be en pointe. If you are already dancing, your teacher will let you en pointe when she feels you are ready both physically and mentally. Every girl’s on flat’s dream is to be en pointe when really it isn’t as glorious as it seems. Eventually you will build up callouses and the pain won’t be as bad, but the way to get those callouses is by your feet blistering. Good luck.
Her name reaaaalllyyyy reminded me of Kaori from that anime...😢. But she has a good pointe and arch and her legs are really streched. 🤗👌
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I would like to do ballet and i want to know does it hurt?
It depends on your teacher if she is really pushing you it hurts but if you are just starting it wont☺️
It depends on a lot of things. If you're at a beginner level and you're not in pointe shoes (pointe work comes later, after you've developed the proper technique and strength for it) then you won't have nearly as much strain on your feet, so they won't hurt nearly as much as a professional dancer's feet. But if you're doing it right, it'll work up a lot of muscles you're not used to working and you'll definitely feel it the next day. Sometimes it just hurts trying to hold a position that's challenging for you, but pain is usually a good thing. Dancers tend to be pretty good at judging what kinds of pain are normal and what might indicate a problem.
+Kasandra Ricondo Honey, you've got a big storm comin'
Normal ballet not really, but pointe can yes.
It’s not painful it’s uncomfortable on Demi point but en pointe is very painful
What tutu is that from?
she does exactly what i would do to my shoes if i got a new pair from my company for free every day
I started point shoes when I was 10
i danced for PNB
0:51 she said "I cut 呢度"
I guess she is saying, I cut "middle". Hello from Hong Kong ;)
i think she said little, because obviously she didn´t cut the whole thing.
lol she said middle, i can tell and I'm not even used to accents
oops, sorry..."Middle" and "呢度“
laughing at myself, I always have those problems, this is not the first time
I always thought how do they’re shoes look so nice now I know it’s because they break in their shoes by hand like OMGGG that’s so annoying bc I have to break in my shoes with my feet
sounds like someone needs to make her shoes
Being a principal dancer she already gets custom shoes provided to her, but even with that the dancers still tailor them to their foot perfectly. For a dancer that likes a very soft broken in shoe it's hard for a manufacturer to provide that, so the manufacturer focuses more on customizations like the vamp length, insoles, drawstrings, cut downs on sides and back, etc. but for a manufacturer to make a shoe that broken down it can compromise the support of the shoe and could result in injury.
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Sometime pointe shoes could break or chip my toe nails and it pain
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she must have rEALLY TOUGH FEET GEEZ
She was I 8 are you serious
wow, look at those legs. I can appreciate them, because I feel like not all asians build up muscle as fast or have as sharp features as caucasians or african americans. I guess the two ethnicities do have their own ups and downs though. Chinese women do tend to be short though. (im asian).
New shoes and tear them apart 🤪
You don’t understand...
Auch!
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Why does she break the shank? I thought a broken shank means the shoes are no longer any good.
No...the shank is not exactly broken...but it is made more pliable that way...
She didn't actually break her shanks, she simply shortened them. I'm sure you've heard of 3/4 shank shoes. These are shoes with a shank that only goes 3/4 of the way which actually provides more support and makes the shoe last longer. She's done a similar thing, just made it shorter than 3/4. It's especially good for people with high arches or flexible ankles since it stops the shank from forcing them over the box. I have flexible ankles myself and do the same thing.
They probably hurt because she is killing the shoes and then they will die really fast causing pain.
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You look like krystine from barbie in the pink shoes
She started at 8?
no she began dancing in that type of shoe at 8
That's what I meant
That is quit early isn't it? What is the avera age for spitzen (the point shoes)?
+Lisa H The average age for pointe is normally around 10-13, it really depends on the dancer and if they have enough strength and support especially on their feet.
K Craig I have a friend that started at 8 but she has super bendy feet and didn't start doing things fully in the centre till about 11 just to strengthen her feet.
OMG. Why did you cut the shanks?!
some people like soft shoes. I know a lot of dancers that cut their shanks.
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Waaaawwwww btw I know Nakamura is an anime character from Assassination Classroom😄😄
I started ballet when I was 2 and I got my pointe shoes when I was 6 and now I'm 10 and it was painful for a bit but now I'm familiar with the pain but I have got a lot of cuts and blisters on feet and even bruises and it's more painful for me because I have a flexible ankle and I don't have a really curved arch so I have to fix my shoes and rip them to be comfortable but no matter what there will always be pain and I was so excited to get them but after that I wanted to get rid of them but I have been is 23 shows and I've be on pointe for 4 years and I am very familiar with every bit of the pain but I guess it's worth it btw can I get a thumbs up because I dance for 8 hours each day
How on earth will a ballet teacher put a 6 year old en pointe let alone dancing in them for 8 hours
EvangelinaIMESmusic Omg thank you! Finally someone said it! I completely agree
No teacher would let a dancer train en pointe at 6, and never for 8 hours. If this is true your feet are not even close to being done growing and can cause very serious injuries, especially if u have a flexible foot and not a good arch.
To early if you ask me their were some little 6 year olds en point how came as guest for my studios nutcraker and none of them were on their boxes and one almost broke their ankle
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beautiful dancer....but she just broke her shanks, destroying the support they provide. Made me wince, those are expensive and I pay for my own.
The shoe still provides support for her foot...but is softer...and more pliable. She happens to have VERY strong feet. Not everyone is as strong as she...
Strong though she may be, the shoe provides minimal support for her foot with a broken shank. As she is a professional, she probably has shoes custom-made, and can request an extra-light shank if she so desires.
She knows what she is doing, I am sure.
In addition to what Dianne says, I've known dancers who cut and break their shanks to create the aesthetic they like or because they have poorly arched feet and need to create the illusion of a greater arch. Sometimes, the shank won't break in where you you'd like and it looks ugly.
Personally, I didn't find the shank terribly supportive where it arched. It's when the shank started to break down lower down in the arch that the shoes were useless for me. Cutting it or breaking it at 3/4 stalled the lower part of the shank to break down for me, because the rest of the shoe (with the exception of demi-pointe) wasn't bending with the break-in. My arch was kind of just "propped-up" on the bent shank.
she doesn't pay for her shoes, the company does. As a professional and especially as a principal you can have as many pairs as you need. To be able to perform every day at your best you must make the shoes work for you, they are a throw away product.
Nice strong feet. Lovely.
WOW those powerful strong yet sexy and playful legs. You gotta give ballet dancers lots of credit.
It probably hurts her so much because she takes all the support out of the shoes
no she is trained enough and her feet are tough enough they support her....actually it's easier
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I bet her toes are busted.
Damn, y'all tearing up the shoes, so bad, why not make them in the beginning yourself
it takes years of training and practice.....we dance in them.....not make them....sadly that would be cool though
You cant replace a shoe made by the best makers they make them to spsifications of the dancers and them the dancers break them in so they fit just right
How can your shoes support you if you broke the sole? Seems dangerous to me.
It depends on your strength some can support them self but sime cant so it can be dangerous if you are not strong enough
It’s not so smart to cut the soles out
The notion of hammering and taking apart pointe shoes is absurd and so wrong. If dancers have to do that, then there is something very wrong with the original design.
nope some do it and some don't....nobody can make the perfect shoes for a dancer.....but dancers can edit them to make it better for them