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d8N9B TIL often dance shoes and tights are supposed to match the skin colors of dancers, but dancers of color have had trouble finding shoes and tights that matched their skin tones
xV8ko TIL that the New York City Ballet has a shoe budget of $780,000: the dancers go through 500 to 800 pairs of pointe shoes performing The Nutcracker over 6 weeks, and use up even more pairs in 2 weeks performing Swan Lake.