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Question: Why do ballerinas dance on their toes!?
Why doesn't the company just hire taller dancers!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Many years ago they tried it, and then the male dancers found they could not lift them!. also, some shorter male dancers did not like to be looking shorter than their partners!. So after the famous conference of Vienna, it was decreed by Countess Zindonkov that all female dancers had to dance on their toes again!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ballerina isn't the correct term to use, unless you're talking about the principal dancer of the studio!. Dancing on their toes is called dancing en pointe!. They dance en pointe because it looks a lot more beautiful than dancing on flat foot or in demi pointe!. Dancing en pointe isn't to make the ballet dancers taller, it's because it's a different style that's branched off of ballet, it's like a sub-division!. It requires much more strength than regular ballet and it makes the dancers lines look much more elegant!. Dancing en pointe is the closest to the illusion of floating on air!. also, it provides more of a satisfaction than regular ballet dancing!. Flat shoes are for amature ballet dancers, and their line is much more broken up, and not as elegant and provides the dancer with uglier looking feet while dancing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's not to make you look any taller!. Its got nothign to do with making anyone taller than they are!.

"Ballerinas" (this is the incorrect term to use, it is ballet dancers!. a ballerina is generally a principle who has risen to prima in a company) dance on their toes (called pointe) because it gives an ethereal, floating look!. It makes them look special and "ethereal"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

to give the illusion that the ballerinas are flying-or floating!. it also creates an unbroken line!. in short, it looks better!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it isnt to make them look taller, it gives the leg a long, elegant look!. ballet is about line, and a foot jutting out breaks the length of the leg!.

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Because it makes them look more graceful!. How would the Sylphs look in jazz, or even ballet, shoes!. It would take away the effect!. Ballerinas are supposed to look weightless!.
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Ballerinas are telling a story, and flat shoes area amateurish!. Plus, they look much more graceful in pointe shoes!Www@QuestionHome@Com

hahahaha is that a trick question!? so why do hiphop dancers do those hunches!? why don't they find smaller people!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

Flat footed dancers don't look as graceful!Www@QuestionHome@Com

How are they going to dance like a bumblebee then though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

because this is style of this danceWww@QuestionHome@Com