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November 8, 2011 12:31 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aAMDiQ7u7bw/ballet-shoes-as-technology.html
Ballet shoes as technology
At the Atlantic, science historian Suzanne Fischer has a really interesting post up about the development of pointe shoes. In the early 20th century, at a time when all sorts of technologies were remaking the way people lived, worked, and played, pointe shoes were doing the same thing for ballerinas. In particular, Fischer writes, pointe [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aAMDiQ7u7bw/ballet-shoes-as-technology.html
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