When Tan Chuyin saw Xu Chunqiu the next morning, the first thing she said was: "What's your shoe size?"

"Thirty-seven. ”

She nodded, turned around and left, and after about ten minutes, she came back with a pair of flesh-pink satin dancing shoes, and said to Xu Chunqiu: "Stop for a while, I'll teach you to wear ballet shoes." ”

Xu Chunqiu's eyes lit up suddenly, she took the dancing shoes and held them in her hand, obviously it was the first time she had been in contact, but she didn't know why she felt very familiar.

The ballet Lingna in a long skirt does not stand up only by the fulcrum of her toes, and the credit of pointe shoes cannot be buried.

Before getting pointe shoes, Xu Chunqiu always wore soft-soled cat's paw shoes.

Pointe shoes are different from ordinary soft-soled practice shoes, the toe of this special dance shoe is hard, which is formed by gluing the cloth layer by layer, the front end of the toe has a small plane, and the sole has a rubber shoeboard. The toe cap and shoe plate work together to stabilize the dancer's center of gravity.

"You haven't been learning for long, you can't wear shoes that are too soft, and the shoes I picked out for you are relatively hard, so you need to break them yourself. ”

"With a little force, just break it to the point where you can still tighten your toes after putting it on. ”

Xu Chunqiu followed Tan Chuyin's example, first put on the toe pad, and then put on ballet shoes, the slender ribbon encircled the instep from the inside, and tied a knot on the ankle bone on the inside of the ankle.

"Hold on to the bar and try to stand up. ”

She took a deep breath and propped her hands on the bar, trying to support herself with the strength of her toes and arms.

"Take your time, don't rush, rather slow than get hurt. ”

With the support of pointe shoes, in fact, many people who have never been exposed to ballet at all can stand on their toes, and in addition to the easy to sprain their ankles, the aesthetics of the posture are not optimistic. They are just at the stage of "standing up".

It's easy to stand up with pointe shoes, but it's too hard and hard to stand up well.

This kind of thing is very talented, Tan Chuyin is a typical talented dancer, but even if she got the first pair of pointe shoes to be able to walk on the stage like this, it still took eight or nine months, which is already quite a fast progress.

But Xu Chunqiu ......

She's only been studying for a few days, huh?

Although Tang Ze and Tu Zisu were urging very tightly, and Xu Chunqiu himself was unusually strict with himself, was this rhythm a little too hasty?

Who knows, with a shaking kung fu, Xu Chunqiu actually held on to the pole and stood up with his feet steady.

I saw that she took a few steps with ease, first off the pole with one hand, and then let go of the other hand without any delay.

Tan Chuyin: !!

The posture was so smooth and coordinated that it was impossible to tell that this was a beginner who had put on pointe shoes for the first time.

Such flexibility, such physical coordination, if you were someone else, even if it took a year or two of hard work, she might not be as good as her.

"You ......" Tan Chuyin was so shocked that she became incoherent.

As everyone knows, when Xu Chunqiu's feet stepped into the ballet shoes, an inexplicable sense of familiarity came to mind.

It's too similar, these dancing shoes are so similar.

When she stood on the three-foot stage, she once tied a pair of hard special dancing shoes to her feet layer by layer.

It's just that it's not called pointe shoes, but "stilts".

The "stilts" on the opera stage and the "stilts" in the traditional sense are two completely different things, and the "stilts" in Peking Opera are a prop that simulates a three-inch golden lotus for a woman with bound feet.

This is a compulsory course for Dan Jiaoer actors in the old days, and the learning process can be described as purgatory, because the learning process is too painful, this cruel skill has gradually been abolished, and now Peking Opera is in decline in this era, and Danjiao who can step on stilts is even rarer.

Xu Chunqiu smiled slightly: "These shoes are quite similar to the stilt shoes in Peking Opera." ”

"Seesaws?"

Tan Chuyin unconsciously repeated half a sentence, and she suddenly felt as if she had heard it somewhere.

It seems that some people call this craft ...... Ballet of the East?

Thinking back to this, she looked at Xu Chunqiu again with a little more admiration in her eyes.

It is not for nothing that the stilt gong is called the "Oriental ballet", and the performers who perform the stilt gong usually walk on the stage in the state of standing on the ground on tiptoe, and the posture is like ballet, graceful and graceful, light and vigorous, and the two completely different arts of the East and the West coincide in the dark.

Who knows that it is also a painful stage art, Western ballet is regarded as an elegant pointe art, while Eastern stilt gong can only be forced to decline.

"You mean, ballet and stilt are similar in technique?"

Xu Chunqiu shook his head: "To be precise, stilt skills are actually more difficult. ”

She dropped her heel, stretched out a leg to touch the ground with one foot, leaned forward slightly, and said, "Look at the toe of the shoe here." ”

"Ballet toe toe has at least one piece of cork to support it, and the dancer only uses the strength of his toes when he spins on the ground, and when he runs and jumps, his heels touch the ground. ”

Tan Chuyin nodded and motioned for her to continue.

"But the stilt is different, once the horns are wrapped in wooden stilts, the legs and ankles must be straight, always maintain a tense state, the whole foot is off the ground, completely rely on the strength of the ankle to stand upright, at this time the weight of the whole body is pressed on the toes, so the training process is more cruel. ”

Xu Chunqiu's eyes involuntarily looked at the mirror in front of him, in the mirror, he seemed to be wearing not ballet pointe shoes, but stilts embroidered with colorful patterns, and the ground seemed to be no longer the flat and non-slip wooden floor of the dance studio, but the undulating ice surface that would make people slip if they were not careful.

Yes, she practiced on the ice at that time.

The stage is covered with red silk cloth, and the thick blanket has become the biggest problem for the stilts.

But ice is different, the ice surface is slippery, and the naturally formed ice is undulating and uneven, which makes it even more difficult to walk.

However, the more difficult it was to walk, the more you had to practice, and the toenails in the stilts fell off in turn, grinding out bloody, and the pain was terrible.

But the more miserable the audience, the more thunderous the applause on the stage. When she stepped on stilts on the ice, she could also walk like a cloud moving with the wind, and when she was relaxed, there was nothing difficult on the thick red carpet on the three-foot stage.