I bought these shoes not because I'm a dancer but because I needed a pair of dress shoes to wear on a cruise that went with everything. The important thing to note about dance shoes is that you CANNOT wear them outside without putting different soles on them. These however were perfect and aside from sending them back and fourth three times to get the right shoe size (Stick with your standard street shoe size incidentally plus a half size for me). They were comfortable and like I said the color is awesome so I only had to pack one pair of dress shoes for the entire trip! The company was great in dealing with the hassle of returns and exchanges. I was an am extremely pleased. Seriously contemplating having them resoled so I can wear them as street shoes.