Eliza Gaynor Minden
From Scratch with Jessica Harris
English - April 09, 2014 22:00 - ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsCareers Business entrepreneurship leadership business health interview finance entrepreneur productivity startups culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ballerinas started wearing point shoes in the late 19th century. Despite advancements in the dance world, the construction of toe shoes has remained pretty much unchanged. The same materials– paste, cardboard, paper and leather– are still used today, and the result is a dancer prone to excess pain and injury. Eliza Gaynor Minden, a former […]
Ballerinas started wearing point shoes in the late 19th century. Despite advancements in the dance world, the construction of toe shoes has remained pretty much unchanged. The same materials– paste, cardboard, paper and leather– are still used today, and the result is a dancer prone to excess pain and injury. Eliza Gaynor Minden, a former dancer, designed a more modern, longer lasting point shoe to address this stress.
Eliza explains how Gaynor Minden shoes successfully overcame controversy and finally gained acceptance among the world’s leading dancers, from scratch.