Ballet, like most things in life, comes with many hardships. Almost every dancer can tell you their own unhappy stories of bun headaches, itchy costumes, or having a knee do a full 180 on stage (NOT a pretty thing to hear about). There's a certain heart-wrenching tale though that almost every aspiring dancer has heard -- one that leaves all the rest in the dust! Well, maybe not the knee story, but . . . It's the grim tale of Mr. and Mrs. Heel and their ill-fated romance, like "Romeo and Juliet", only way more tragic. And as with many childhood stories, there's an important lesson to be learned: the 5 positions of the feet.
At my studio, we tell this story to all the new ballet dancers to help remember the 5 positions because whenever your feet are on the floor, they're in one of these positions. You don't need expensive shoes or hours of lessons to follow along though. So from here until the end of this article and by the power vested in me, I now pronounce your heels man and wife!
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