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Transcending The Biological: Consider The Pointe Shoe

DANCE Posted: May 20, 2019 12:02 pm

“Pointe shoes are a strangely enduring anachronism that epitomises the enduring desire for ballerinas to embody the unnatural, to portray an illusion. And their intention as a tool to evoke ethereal beings is in direct contrast with their actual biological impact on very real humans.” – Aeon

DANCE Published: 05.20.19

Read the story in Aeon Published: 05.20.19

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