Professional dancers open up about their struggles and challenges


[post_page_title]When you have to throw away your shoes after one show[/post_page_title]
Michael Jordan famously wore his college North Carolina Tar Heels jersey and shorts underneath his Chicago Bulls uniform because he believed it would bring him luck (as if he needed it). Dancers, meanwhile, don’t even have that option.

When you have to throw away your shoes after one show

No dancer has ever gotten too sentimentally attached to their pointe shoes, for the very simple reason that they’re almost never worn for more than a single performance. That’s right, imagine that after going out and spending money on a new pair of stylish shoes, you’d have to throw them away after one night in the club.

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