"That's it." Bai Yilun turned to look at his dance partner, "Lu, what's your shoe size? Let's see if we can borrow the dance shoes from Xiao Zhong's dance partner."
When Bai Lu heard that she was Bai Yilun's apprentice, she immediately put down the curling iron in her hand and took out her pointe shoes from her backpack, "These are my pointe shoes. The shoe size is the same as your dance partner's, but I don't know...
Is she comfortable wearing soft-soled shoes?"
Pointe shoes are divided into two types: hard-soled and soft-soled. Hard-soled pointe shoes are relatively hard and suitable for dancers with relatively weak pointe foundation; soft-soled shoes are different. Players with excellent pointe foundation can consider it.
Try soft-soled shoes.
For example, professional dancers like Bai Lu are used to wearing soft-soled shoes.
Bai Lu asked this to ensure that the shoes would be usable after being loaned out. She hoped that her kind help would not make the performance of the other group of contestants more difficult.
"Is that so..." Zhong Buqun's heart suddenly sank. Lu Panpan's pointe is a weak point, and he always wears hard-soled pointe shoes when practicing.
He didn't think about this in detail before, but now it seems that Lu Panpan always wears hard-soled shoes, mostly because of the shape of her feet.
Because her foot type does not have any advantages, in order to ensure her safety during practice, she can only wear hard-soled shoes every time.
"Senior, could you please lend me these shoes for Panpan to try on?" It's better to have them than not, and Zhong Buqun couldn't bear to give up this rare last chance.
"Okay." Bai Lu agreed simply, "The person my brother wants to help must be someone worthy of help. I hope you can achieve good results in the preliminaries, and we will meet in the semi-finals!"
The Bai family is a well-known artistic family in the whole city. Bai Yilun and Bai Lu, brothers and sisters, have become famous among the new generation of literary and art workers by virtue of their talent in dancing.
Both of them firmly believe that "learning from art first comes from virtue", which is also the family motto passed down by their Bai family for generations. Therefore, even if Zhong Buqun is not someone they know well, they will consider generously helping him if they can.
Pointed shoes are available for loan.
Zhong Buqun finally received the available pointe shoes at the last moment and almost rushed into Lu Panpan's dressing room, "Panpan, try these shoes."
Lu Panpan saw the shoes in Zhong Buqun's hand and immediately stood up.
She ran up to him in three steps and then...
First, she held his face and kissed him gently.
He didn't linger too much, just touched his lips briefly. The softness he felt at that moment made Zhong Buqun a little distracted.
She murmured, "Thank you for your hard work."
Zhong Buqun quickly stuffed the pair of pointe shoes into her arms and quickly took a step back.
He didn't want her to notice the red roots of his ears.
Lu Panpan checked the uppers and shoelaces, and then put on this pair of satin pointe shoes that looked at least 89% new and were very expensive.
"These shoes... why are they soft-soled shoes?!" Lu Panpan's smile froze on her face halfway through wearing the shoes, "What should I do? I have never worn soft-soled shoes.
..."
Strange things are more likely to arouse the deepest fear in people's hearts. Lu Panpan put on her shoes and tried her movements, but found that she couldn't even find her center of gravity.
The soles of this pair of shoes were completely different from the soles of her own pointe shoes. She felt that the soles and soles of her feet had lost a strong support.
This feeling made her panic, and she was always worried that she would fall.
The instep of the foot is not superior enough, and the weakness of the Achilles tendon due to long-term use of hard-soled shoes is fully revealed at this moment.
"Are we...going to go on stage like this?" Lu Panpan's mind exploded with a bang. But apart from going on stage, he only had to go on stage barefoot and complete. It seemed that after weighing the balance,
Wearing this pair of soft-soled shoes on stage is already a good solution...
During the competition, Lu Panpan and Zhong Buqun were ranked very high. Therefore, before Lu Panpan had even completed half of his mental preparation, the host's voice pulled his soul out of his body and seemed to be unconscious.
Then he walked onto the stage.
Greet the judges, carry your luggage, find your place, listen to the interlude, start dancing...it all depends on muscle memory.
Lu Panpan gave Zhong Buqun panicked looks more than once, because the feeling on the soles of her feet was so unfamiliar to her. She had never used any soft-soled pointe shoes, and she had never been like this at this moment.
So panicked.
"Zhong Buqun, I feel like my feet are almost no longer mine."
"What should I do? Why can't it be over yet..."
Lu Panpan's mind was filled with inner drama, but she had to ensure that she would smile like a sweet girl at the right time when she should smile. After all... Generally speaking, the tone of this pas de deux was cheerful.
Crying and laughing, but not on pointe yet... It would be extremely funny to perform a dance repertoire like this.
Before jumping to the last section, Lu Panpan was sure that the final score of the dance she and Zhong Buqun would definitely be the lowest in the audience. This chapter has been completed!