Pointe Meets Technology

Over the years pointe shoes have developed greatly. More and more they have come out with new pointe shoes to fit and work with individual dancers. But now they have come up with a new pointe shoe called e-traces. These aren't your typical pointe shoes, they have built in technology to calculate and record movement. The things recorded goes onto an app that shows the mapping and choreography of the dancers feet. 

The designer of this, Lesia Trubat, appreciates the actions of dancers and believes that these shoes will transform the image of a dancer into a visual language. The shoe has electronic devices on the bottom and side of the shoe developed by "sewable electronics".

We have seen how technology has slowly been incorporated with dance. From solutes, to animations in the background. But Trubat combines both dance and technology allowing dance fans to interact with ballet in a new way. 

This is only the start to a new future for ballet and dance. I am eager to see what will come next. 

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