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I never understood the dancing-on-the-toe thing. I mean, it looks kind of weird, doesn't it? It's not a posture any person is naturally going to assume in the course of their lifetime. Yet it's in every ballet. If you want to be a ballerina, you need to learn how to abuse your feet by dancing on your toes. Who came up with this? Some Russian guy with a foot fetish said, "If we want our female dancers to look like swans, we have to get them to dance on the tips of their toes?" And then everybody started to do it?
it is used to give a performance a weightless and airy effect, and was first used by a dancer to depict a slyph character in an italian show.
as to why women still do this in age of theater cranes, i can only really guess that its one of those things women do for male attention, like shoving themselves into ill fitting clothes, wearing heels, and painting their face with colored bat shit.
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