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Straight to the Pointe
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Dancing en pointe, i.e. on the tips of the toes wearing the specific shoes, is one of the basics of ballet, so a lot of fictional depictions of ballet will include pointe work; thanks to the Coconut Effect, if someone's en pointe, tutus aren't necessary to get the pointe across. Bonus points if pirouettes and ballet jumps (e.g. jetes, sautes, sissones, brises, and sobresauts) are also included in the performance, and especially if the dancers perform in a consistent order as if they were dancing the Konami Code or some other video game single button combo. Now, in Real Life, en pointe is a very taxing technique that is not taught to anyone who is not 1) physically matured enough (including muscle development and bone ossification) and 2) thoroughly competent in ballet technique on the flat. Pointework is veritable murder on the toes, as can be seen when the pointe shoes come off.note Ballerinas' feet are frequently ugly as sin, and that's with toe spacers, toe pads, lambswool, band-aids, and athletic tape padding their shoes. While dancing en pointe can give a very floating impression, it cannot be used too much in choreography due to not only the strain and pain, but also the fact that such a small point of contact with the floor does not offer enough leverage for some moves. Also the fabric covering the shoe might shred up mid-act and look simply unbecoming.note More seriously, professional dancers can go through five or six pairs of pointe shoes a week, and often will use a new pair for every performance. This is because pointe shoes break down with repeated use, giving the dancer less support and increasing the risk of injury. Worn-out pointe shoes don't just look ugly; they're actually dangerous. Expect fictional ballerinas to dance en pointe how ever much they please, at any age and stage of training they please. They will transition to and from any and all movements gracefully on their tip-toes, and they will never have to tape and pad their black and blue toes for the shoes. A Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Art. |
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Angelina Ballerina in the first series features a cast of ballerinas who are already dancing en pointe despite being in grade school. The 2009 3D animation series has them switch to age-appropriate demi-pointe. | |
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Eternal Champions has Jetta Maxx, a circus acrobat whose "moving corkscrew" attack has her spin on her toes, (in bare feet) to the left or right, while slicing at her opponent with her wrist blades. | |
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Usually averted in Princess Tutu; the girls are really just in the phase where the best of them graduate the basics and are allowed to start their pointe, and many scenes pointe out how hard it actually is, even for the dance genius Rue. However, for Princess Tutu (the Magical Girl form for Ahiru, who in her civilian form is rather clumsy and very often under threat of being assessed additional exercise for being so incompetent in dance class) it's justified in that thanks to her magic she can dance however she wants. | |
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Ballora in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location is perpetually en pointe — as in, her feet are rigid and fixed that way — but she's animatronic, so it's justified. | |
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Ballerina: Ironically for a film otherwise faithful in its depiction of ballet (apart from Anachronism Stew in its depiction of the show being produced by the Paris Opera), Félicie is guilty of this, wearing pointe shoes on her first day and dancing en pointe in shoes not really suited for pointework. | |
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The Arthur episode "Revenge of the Chip" concludes with Binky Barnes doing an interpretative dance about green potato chips. He does this dance on pointe, even though he's nine years old (his feet and leg muscles shouldn't be strong enough). | |
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In Anyone Can Whistle, "The Cookie Chase," a classical ballet pastiche, begins with Cora giving the order to her deputies: "From now, I expect every man among you to be—on—your—toes!" This, of course, is the cue for all of Cora's deputies and their first arrestee to stand on point. | |
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Steven Universe: Pearl frequently goes en pointe when she dances or fights, usually to do some kind of pivot or just pose dramatically. Pearl is definitely strong enough to do so, but the shoes she always wears have pointed ends instead of the flat ends of pointe shoes. Opal, her and Amethyst's fusion, stands this way almost all the time (though she doesn't get a lot of screen time). White Pearl stands en pointe at all times. Even when she's moving, it's a Ghostly Glide that leaves her toe tips alone touching the ground. It's one of several things about her that's just plain creepy. She moved more naturally as Pink Pearl before White Diamond took control of her. All of the above can potentially be excused by the fact that Gems as a whole are shapeshifting constructs of Hard Light, and as such not subject to the limitations of the human body. |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Spider-Gwen's superhero costume includes ballerina slippers. Naturally, she's sometimes seen doing pointe, notably when landing on a tree branch in her first costumed appearance. And the closing credits feature a whole ballet of Spider-Gwens. | |
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Averted in Black Swan, which shows the effects of dancing en pointe have on Nina's feet early in the film. | |
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Carmilla Carmine from Hazbin Hotel walks perpetually en pointe, courtesy of her Armed Legs: a set of blessed steel ballet shoes, sharp enough to decapitate an Exorcist angel with a single kick. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night: The "Dance Magic" Episode Title Card itself, focusing on the dancers' feet, features doing the pointe in the appropriate shoes. Both Fluttershy and Sugarcoat does a lot of pointes in their part of the choreography. And while Fluttershy at least is wearing ballet slippers, Sugarcoat's shoes look like ordinary sneakers. | |
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The Angelina Ballerina series always shows the mouse girls dancing on their toes in laced pointe shoes, even though the characters are in their first years of ballet lessons. | |
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Played straight, subverted, and justified all in the same episode of Sailor Moon SuperS; while both Usagi and Chibiusa are wearing pointe shoes for their dance lessons, they don't really go any higher than demipointe, but Fisheye, who's wearing pointe shoes, does go up to full pointe. (The other Sailor Soldiers are wearing regular ballet slippers.) Usagi and Chibiusa do manage to go en pointe in some Imagine Spots, though. | |
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Averted in Bad News Ballet. The girls are not into toe shoes until the fifth book of the series, and they have to practice hard to be allowed in them at all. However, they do seem to get into them very quickly, having only taken ballet full time in formal classes since December and only taking one class a week (when working up to toe shoes require extensive training). | |
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In Ballet Shoes, even before she starts her formal ballet training, Posy displays the uncanny ability to stand en pointe. This makes her rather unique amongst her siblings. | |
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Deedee from Dexter's Laboratory is only in sixth grade, but her and her friends are usually shown dancing with their feet pointed straight down. | |
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