What is demi pointe work?
Demi Pointe is when you work on the balls of your feet instead of full flats or full pointe. You can do this bare feet, in normal ballet shoes, or in ‘d blocks’ which are soft ballet shoes which do enable you to go on pointe. Usually you start doing demi pointe work in about grade 3 as that is when your feet are usually strong enough, but your teacher has the final say on when you start as she knows how strong your feet actually are.
