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Ballet Shoes |
27 Nov 2006 |
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Having stepped down as a full time member of the Royal Ballet last year, Darcy Bussell hasn’t quite hung up her shoes yet. She dances tonight at the Royal Opera House with the Kirov star Igor Zelensky. Throughout her twenty years of performance, she’s relied upon 'Freed of London' for her shoes. They make forty percent of the world’s ballet shoes, with three factories churning out about two hundred thousand of them a year. And each shoe is hand made to exact specifications. Angharad Law went to visit the company’s factory in the East End of London and then headed to the Royal Opera House to meet Susannah Bredin, the ballet shoe supervisor for the Royal Ballet, and Tamara Rojo a principle dancer.The Royal BalletDisclaimer
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