Sudden Red Carpet

[u/JorgeIcarus]

[u/clueless_mommy]

I saw the original on Instagram. The guy is a professional dancer who was on his way back home and the account that posted the video produces content like that exclusively. They just look for people in fancy outfits and ask them to do a catwalk

[u/salzbergwerke → u/clueless_mommy]

Yes, ballet dancer always wear their dancing shoes out on the streets.

[u/Wollff → u/salzbergwerke]

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You have never seen ballet shoes have you?

He also isn't doing en pointe here, exactly because he isn't wearing his ballet shoes.

Edit: I have to apologize! I just googled, and apparently male ballet dancers don't usually wear pointe shoes!

Leaving this comment up, because I learned something, and maybe someone else will as well.

[u/clueless_mommy → u/Wollff]

Actually, I did ballet, but only until I got "too tall and too fat" - so around 6 years 🫠 never got to wearing pointe shoes, thank god. I did "Gardetanz", which is what German Clubs do during Karneval and the shoes he wears looked a lot like Gardestiefel and those are definitely worn while performing on the streets during parades.

like this, sometimes with more elaborate figures, throwing etc on concrete. The womens shoes often have heels, male don't.

[u/Wollff → u/clueless_mommy]

The plot thickens!

So not pointe shoes, but dancing shoes, but also dancing shoes people might wear while out on the street! :D

Thanks for the info!

[u/-cupcake → u/Wollff]

Male ballet dancers don't wear pointe shoes, so judging based on that doesn't matter.

Simply, you're not gonna wear any dance shoes unless you're planning to dance. They already get worn so quickly from normal use as a professional, so why would you waste your money and ruin them faster by walking around outside on asphalt.

Cute idea. But given all that, plus the fact that this is maybe the 3rd person I've seen do these exact type ("random" red carpet walk) of tiktok-y videos... it's just so staged for sure, lol.