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Support our 2019 Pointe Shoe Appeal
As Queensland Ballet continues to grow, we are using more Pointe Shoes and Flat Ballet Shoes than ever before. In 2019 we will use approximately 5000 pairs!
We would very much appreciate your help to stay en pointe and keep us looking the part. Through supporting our Pointe Shoe Appeal, you are truly enabling our dancers to be the artists they are destined to be. Your generous support is deeply appreciated, always.
How your donation will help
Did You Know?
- In 2019, there are 56 Queensland Ballet dancers.
- A Principal Dancer can use 2-3 pairs of pointe shoes during one performance.
- In 2019, Queensland Ballet dancers will use almost 5,000 pairs of pointe shoes and flat ballet shoes.
- It takes 30-45 minutes to prepare a pair of pointe shoes.
- Arts Queensland will match dollar for dollar donations to the Pointe Shoe Appeal 2019.
- Dancers "break in" new pointe shoes in various ways including performing releves that flex the shoe and striking them on hard surfaces.
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Dancers will use 1,150 metres of ribbon on their pointe shoes in 2019.
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Queensland Ballet will spend $160,000 on ballet shoes in 2019.
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In 2019 the dancers will spend approximately 35,000 hours en pointe.
