Men en pointe: ballet dancers kick against gender stereotypes
Performing on the tips of the toes is part of the mystique of a female ballerina but male dancers devoted to the pointe technique want to be taken more seriously "I was always attracted to pointe shoes. They were like magic! I wondered: Why can only girls use them?" Iván Félix is a 24-year-old ballet dancer from Mexico who has been dancing en pointe for three years. "I think that many people look down on the men …