09/12/2026
What an exciting day!!! Congratulations to Lillian for completing the requirements to get her very first pair of pointe shoes! She has worked so hard to earn this privilege and has met all the benchmarks in her pre-pointe training and evaluations. Today she had her first fitting at Dancer’s Market.
At TPDC, we take extensive steps and precautions to ensure the safety and well-being of our students who want to dance on pointe. We have many girls enrolled in our pre-pointe class this year and they are all working very hard in the program. We couldn’t be more proud of everyone’s dedication and progress!
Our studio uses Lisa Howell’s “The Perfect Pointe” program to ensure students complete proper conditioning, preparation, and testing to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience once en pointe. There is never a specific age or timeline for when a student should go en pointe, as no dancer is alike. We look at bone/muscle structure, strength/ flexibility, as well as considering work ethic, attitude and maturity. This program allows students to find strengths and weaknesses and helps them to be proactive and successful in their individual pointe training.
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“Lisa Howell is a physiotherapist, author, speaker and creator of Perfect Form Physiotherapy, a specialist dance physiotherapy clinic and an online portal which has revolutionized how dancers think about their bodies, injuries and performance enhancement.”
Read more about Lisa Howell and her work below:
https://www.perfectformphysio.com.au/lisa-howell/