How do you do 'Ballet toes'?

Question

My friend thinks that you actually go on the very tips of your toes.

However I think that you stand on the front of your toe, so you kind of scrumple it up :S

Who is right? Pics will be great

Answer 1

your friend is right. Dancers use a special sues made from layers of linen, cardboard, wood and a special glue to make a shoe to hold their feet. They also put in protective padding to support the feet. See all of these pics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe_shoe...

http://www.chanhongoh.com/images/diamond...

http://www.dancehelp.com/articles/classi...

http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2008/04/2...

http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/i...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/p...

http://english.chosun.com/media/photo/ne...

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/John-Gl...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

Answer 2

The shoes Ballerinas use to to "toe dancing" are specially made with a hard, extremely supportive toe box, so your friend is right - you actually do stand right on the tips of your toes.  The only reason your toes could scrunch is if your shoes were way to small!  

However - standing on point is only possible in the special toe shoes, not plain ballet flat slippers.  Here are some pictures:

http://www.freewebs.com/dance2thetop/poi...

http://members.aol.com/dancearea/dancer....

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB008730.jp...

http://www.dancer.com/

Answer 3

I used to do pointe dancing, and yes, it is on the tips of your toes.  

Answer 4

you actually stand on the tips. But you have special shoes that you do it in called pointe shoes.

Answer 5

If your talking about dancing on pointe, you do dance on the tips of your toes. But you were special shoes called point shoes that are shaped kind of like a hard box so that they can hold you up. It sounds painful, but if your shoes fit right and your standing on pointe correctly it shouldn't hurt.

I'm attaching a picture of somebody on pointe and the shoes themselves.

Answer 6

you stand on the tips with pointe shoes

PLEASE DO NOT TRY IT WITHOUT POINTE SHOES, YOU WILL DAMAGE YOUR FEET!!!

Answer 7

tips of your toes, and second thing is in pointe hoes you shouldn't have space to ballance on your knuckles or else they are badly fitted.