How Ballerinas Customize Their Pointe Shoes

Olivia Boisson is a corps de ballet member with New York City Ballet. Boisson has been with NYC Ballet for seven years. As a corps member, Boisson dances 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week. She showed us how she customizes her pointe shoes for performances. MORE DANCE CONTENT: Ballet Shoes Made For Brown-Skinned Ballerinas Ballerina Breaks Down 11 Iconic Ballet Scenes | How Real Is It? How Jennifer Lopez Trained To Pole Dance In ’Hustlers’ | Movies Insider ------------------------------------------------------ #Ballet #PointeShoes #Insider INSIDER is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports and all the rest. It’s smart. It’s fearless. It’s fun. We push the boundaries of digital storytelling. Our mission i