Wait, pointe shoes are supposed to match your skin colour? I always thought they should match the rest of your outfit?

This feels less like racism and more like a stale tradition. Not to mention that shoes can be dyed any color of the rainbow if you choose. Ballet companies in Harlem were doing this in the seventies. Maybe manufacturers have been slow to realize that traditional white or pink are falling out of fashion. It just doesn't seem like a racial intent. Tell me ballet companies have been forbidding dancers from dying their shoes to match their skin tone. Then you got some thing.

but i dont get it!! Personal preferance aside, pointe shoes are generally pink as the ballerina tutus are pink. And in nutshell ballet originated Italy and evolved to France and Russia, it was initiated by women and display of graceful femininity. So the pointe shoes and the tutu are an outfit. If you wear blue tutu, then light blue pointe shoes. And if brown tutu then light brown pointe shoes. But standard is a soft pink usually. Why the pointe shoes are a soft and lighter color is because footwork is especial to take note of when ballerinas dance. I am trying to explain as best what i mean.

I am just thrilled about this and all I can say is About Time!!! But just letting folks know.... Toe shoes come in a bunch of colors. Even in the past, the shoes were often dyed to match the costume. OIP-1-6030...51a950.jpg

I'm surprised to know it is so difficult to get ballerina shoes in any color you want, since basically everything is sold in every color imaginable if you look close enough. Diversity is important, sure, but making it a race problem even in balette now, it's too much becoming a dangerous trend. Next time we see an article about 'Is snow racist?' Will this ever end?

I don’t know if this is really a big deal... I’ve seen all sorts of ballet shoes, ranging from the traditional pink, to black and white. And these are when I’m not even looking for shoes, just in passing I see them in stores. Also I thought the shoes were just meant to match the outfit, I mean, who has really met a pastel pink person.

Eyy! That's awesome! I'm happy for her ^^ and everyone else who gets to enjoy things like this finally :)

It is wrong, that white ballet shoes match the skin tone of ballerinas: No one has paperwhite skin. The bright shoes should stand out against the stage background, that you can easily see the movements of the dancers. Brown shoes are hard to see against darker backdrops. She looks beautiful in those shoes, but you can see from the garden photo that her feet and therefore her movement are hard to see. Especially in the theater, however, the audience in the back row also wants to be able to see the movements of the dancers.

She is magnificent! I hope she will have a great career, worthy of her talent. The shoes being the right color may seem like a small thing, but pointe shoes are usually intended to elongate the look of the dancer's legs, and the shoes matching her skin tone do the job beautifully.

ridiculous. what's wrong with white or pink shoes?

Goes to show you that pink ballerina shoes for "white" people just means white people are pink, like pigs

here is the link to an article https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/01/pointe-shoes-black-ballet-ballerinas-dancers............................copy and paste

Omg the picture with the black tutu was so stunning! I would put that picture as art in my home.

Pointe shoes are meant to be an extension of the legs, so why this took so long is an example of the dance companies not being sensitive to the girls/women. of color that want to dance. That why it was so brave of Misty Copeland to break down that barrier.

As a POC we have always taken things in stride because that's the way things have always been. I am very excited that things have started to change. Bandaids use to be made in different shades until they were not. I am glad they are being manufactured once again. Everyone deserves to be able to have their skin tone represented. From clothing such as nude colors in stockings or whatever because that's the color of human beings, we are not one color fits all, thank you.

I don't understand that. I have seen ballerinas of colour for YEARS with matching dancing shoes. This isn't new.

It’s ridiculous that companies took so damn long to make a simple colour change. Should have happened long before now

So can the white ballerinas wear that too?

OMG. Really??

I think this is important! We have to remember that all humans share 99.99% of their DNA with each other and skin color (or anything else that makes each person different) is just in that tiny percentage of difference. We're all the same. We're all humans. And we should all be treated as such.

My father wanted me to try out for ballet since I don't do a sport and I should stay active and do something, but I said no for multiple reasons, the biggest ones being A) I'd more than likely be the only dark-skinned person in the whole class. B) I'm not the most flexible person and would probably be the most behind girl in class. And C) Ballet has never been interesting to me! But I think he was planning on signing me up anyway until COVID and other problems came up.

It looks awful, like your feet are deformed. It's much better when you can distinguish the shoes from the rest of the leg.

I am so pleased to see people expanding their understanding of WHY things such as what "skin tone" is decided to be contributes/has contributed to institutionalized racism that most people are completely unaware of.

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Reverse racism! Retarded post

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black lives, matter, if you agree, comment if you agree, then put your skin tone, i want to see if whites like me think the same!