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adv. (context ballet English) On the tips of one's toes.
Usage examples of "en pointe".
When she'd mentioned that she hadn't been en pointe in six months, he'd simply suggested that she dig out her toe shoes and practice.
She said that the dancers wear special shoes, and that it takes years of conditioning before the feet can stay en pointe, even with their help.
I have, however, had occasion to see a unique ensemble called Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which specializes in -- I am not making this up -- all-male drag ballet, wherein one may see not only men dancing en pointe, but a host of other extraordinary sights besides.
She dances en pointe (that means on toe), she takes lessons at a special ballet school in Stamford, and she has danced lead parts in lots of productions before big audiences.
We changed out of our toe shoes (I am proud to say that I can dance en pointe), and slipped jeans or skirts over our leotards.
He was a heavy, clumsy man with a wooden hand, but his mind danced more delicately than a ballerina en pointe.
I've already learned to dance on my toes (which is called en pointe) and I've played lead roles in a few ballets, like Swanilda in Coppelia and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.
Things haltingly stirred to life, a ballerina with empty eye sockets elevating itself en pointe, a sawn-off oem-media dell'arte Punchinello grinning with malice and shaking a bell-cuffed fist at unseen enemies.