Black ballet: Pointe break by Hannah Pool

Ballet is typically a white upper-class pursuit, right? Hannah Pool on a company trying to change all that…Cira Robinson started "pancaking" her ballet shoes when she was 18: "I use foundation. The colour is Caribbean coffee " it's basic cheap make-up, but it works. Pointe shoes come only in the traditional pink, unless they're red for a show. It would look strange if there was a pink shoe at the end…

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