What is my size for a ballet demi pointe shoes?

Unless you are 7, one class a week won't due if you are looking for a career in the ballet.. And... you have to start in flat ballet slippers. I suggest leather full sole slippers because they work your foot more than canvas split soles and help strengthen your arch for pointe. I looked at your Q & A and saw that you are 13 and had stopped dance at age 10.

If you wish to go pro you will have to start with a minimum of 4 or 5 classes a week (6-7 1/2 hours.) and work up to double that amount as soon as you can get used to it. At your age, dancers on track for a career in the ballet, are taking at least 15 hours of technique classes a week. Most people have no idea what it takes for a career in the ballet.

You need to start at the right age without stopping, You need the right bone structure and facility for ballet along with musicality and you need the right training. You need to have a high arch and high instep (top bump) in your foot. You need 90 degrees of turnout from each hip coming from the hip rotators.

You need long stretchy achilles tendons for juicy plies. You need long legs arms and neck with a short torso and slightly hyper extended knees. These things cannot be changed no matter how much you train.

Only 2% of the population has the right bone and muscle structure for professional ballet. At 13 and 5'7 1/2" tall you would have to not grow more than half an inch. Most companies have a cap on the height of their dancers at 5' 7" or 5' 8" tall.

You cannot be taller than the men when you go en pointe and if you ar too tall, that is a problem. You need to study at a world class ballet academy. One that is a feeder school for a professional ballet company.

At 13 they will expect you to be en pointe or just about en pointe and have very strong ballet technique. This you don't have because you haven't danced for 3 years. 10-13 is a critical pointe in dance training.

A great deal of growth comes during those years. There is no shortcut to ballet technique. Dancers on track for a career in ballet leave home and dorm at their ballet academies where they are either home schooled or take academics as arranged by their academies so they can dance 20-30 hours a week year round.

Training is complete (along with high school) at age 16 when you apprentice with a ballet company and are hopefully asked to join as corps de ballet 6 months later. Even with the right body, and training not all make the professional ranks. There are so few jobs and many well trained dancers.

Only the best of the best get work. Of the dancers trained at schools like SAB, not all make the professional ranks. This past season, only 5 dancers were chosen from among the male and female dancers in the upper level to apprentice with NYCB.

The rest of the dancers audition and get apprentice jobs with other lesser companies and others get no work at all. If you cannot get into a top ballet school right away, you have no chance fo this happening. All this being said and even girls who have spent their lives in ballet academies taking multiple classes a day and still not getting to be a professional ballet dancer, why not dance for the Joy of Dance.

Who says you have to get paid to enjoy dance? Ballet careers are short and over in a flash and then you have to find something else to do with the rest of your life. Ballet can always be part of your life.

This Site Might Help You. RE: Can I wear demi-pointe ballet shoes? As I said in my last question, I am going to start dance, and the teacher said either leather, canvas or satin shoes, demi pointes/ pointes acceptable.

Pink only! Should I get Demi pointes in addition to canvas or leather? I already have canvas from a couple of years ago, they are split sole flesh...

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