Dance Shoes: so important?

Regardless the dance stile you may practise, dance shoes have become an essential element, often a key one. Being the attire more dependant on fashion and aesthetic tastes, in each dance stile shoes cannot change that much. Every dance has its own shoe. Some of them are easily recognized by non-experts, like the ballet shoes (although in fact there are many different types of ballet shoes). But, have you ever heard about: tap-dance shoes, latin shoes, irish dance shoes, swing and jazz shoes?.

Every dance has its shoes, probably because every dance has its soul.