The pointe is

I love playing about with Mummy's pointe shoes.  I know I have to do lots of exercise to develop my feet, ankles and core to get up en pointe properly, but it is nice to pretend and Mummy says I'm almost better than her!!

"You have got to love dancing to stick to it.  It gives nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls, no poems to print, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."
(Merce Cunningham)