Through films like Suspiria and Black Swan, Claire Marie Healy looks into the oppressive history of pointe shoes – and why they are a powerful symbol of the kinds of expectations placed on all young girls
the three-feet tall piece of visual culture that drew much focus onto the reality of ballet for teenage girls on its debut in 1881. It’s well known that the original was deemed strange on its big reveal because it was rendered in wax; less discussed, but probably as disconcerting to the audience, is the fact she wore a real pair of ballet shoes, as though she’d stepped from the stage wings straight into a glass viewing case.
Pointe shoes, so directly tied up with a ballerina’s own coming-of-age are a powerful symbol of the kinds of expectations placed on all girls as they become themselves. . Early in the film, we see Nina scrape, knife, rip, and stitch her shoes; she tapes her bloody toes up, and smacks the shoes down against the hard floor. The audio of all these movements is in a kind of loudness war with the piano piece that serves as the scene’s background music; they scrape against the ears, like Nina’s scissors do against the leather soles.
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