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Lauren Cuthbertson opens refurbished Freed Shoes Shop
Royal Ballet Principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson this week re-opened the refurbished St Martin's Lane shop of Freed of London, a major supplier of custom-made pointe shoes to The Royal Ballet. The...
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Royal Ballet dancers can get through up to six pairs of pointe shoes a week. That’s a lot of shoes, most of them made by Freed of London, a major supplier of custom-made pointe shoes to the world’s...
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Fancy footwork in The Nutcracker
Laura McCulloch, Ryoichi Hirano and Johannes Stepanek in the Arabian dance, The Nutcracker, ©Johan Persson/ROH 2010 It’s a staggering ballet fact that between rehearsals and 19 performances, this...
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Pointe Shoes Room: A look at the caterpillar’s feet in Alice
Caterpillar pointe shoes as worn in The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland © ROH/Chris Shipman, 2013 It’s one of the best-loved scenes in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: the meeting of...
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Mara Galeazzi and Edward Watson, The Royal Ballet Principals fronting this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal, recently took time out of rehearsals to explain the importance of footwear in ballet. 'Our shoes...
View ArticleWatch: See The Royal Ballet from the perspective of a pointe shoe
As part of our live cinema relay of The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker, we premiered this year's film promoting our annual Pointe Shoe Appeal. The film follows the life of a pointe shoe from the Freed...
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Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé on the nuances of ballet footwear
Used pointe shoes © ROH / Ruairi Watson 2014 As we launch this year’s Pointe Shoes Appeal, we caught up with First Artist Francesca Hayward and Artist Marcelino Sambé, who are supporting this year’s...
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Competition: Win tickets to a Royal Ballet in Rehearsal Insights event
Yasmine Naghdi and Marcelino Sambé with our Pointe Shoe Tower - showing the number of pointe shoes used by The Royal Ballet in a week © ROH/Ruairi Watson, 2014 UPDATED 22/04/14: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW...
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What's in dancers' ballet bags?
Used pointe shoes © ROH / Ruairi Watson 2014 'Be prepared' is most famous as the motto of the Scouts, but it's a maxim that is equally as embraced by ballet dancers. A dancer's ballet bag is an...
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The road to becoming a ballerina
Artist Hannah Grennell supporting The Royal Ballet's Pointe Shoes Appeal © ROH, 2015. It's often said that 'Every journey starts with a single step'. For aspiring ballerinas, it's not one standard step...
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Every aspiring ballet dancer dreams of the day they are given their first pair of pointe shoes. With their lengths of ribbon and delicate appearance, there’s something unmistakably beautiful about the...
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Watch: Why the Rose Adage from The Sleeping Beauty is the ultimate challenge...
Principal of The Royal Ballet Akane Takada rehearses the 'Rose Adage' with First Soloist Valeri Hristov (Screenshot from Facebook film) For many ballerinas, the role of Princess Aurora in The Sleeping...
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What does a ballet mistress do?
The Kingdom of the Shades in La Bayadère. © ROH / Bill Cooper The ballet mistress sounds like a rather old-fashioned job title. But the role is vital in any ballet company. Every dancer in The Royal...
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What happens when a man dances on pointe?
Jonathan Howells in The Dream © ROH/Johan Persson, 2012 The enchanted world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has inspired countless artists over the centuries, but one of its characters in...
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How the right pair of pointe shoes can make all the difference to a dancer
Akane Takada preparing her pointe shoes © ROH, 2017. Photographed by Andrej Uspenski 'Pointe shoes are so important to dancers. When I'm dancing, they become part of my body', says Royal Ballet...
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