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A Legacy in Ballet Heels. A Future You Can Define.
A paid, long-term role for a professionally trained classical ballet dancer who wants to combine her technique with fashion, film, photography, and a creative identity of her own.
More than fifteen years ago, Alexandra Potter stepped off a train, put on a pair of ballet heels, and became part of a collaboration that shaped the identity of ballet-heels.com. Her discipline, character, and presence helped turn an unusual visual idea into an extensive and recognizable body of work.
That history is the foundation of the project, but it is not a template for the woman who comes next. I am looking for a new artist with her own presence, ideas, and ambitions—someone capable of helping Ballet Heels develop a visual identity for the future.
The Next Chapter
I am looking for a professionally trained classical ballet dancer to become the artistic and visual centre of the next stage of Ballet Heels. This is intended as a paid, full-time role with a long-term perspective, based in and around Cologne, Germany. It is neither a conventional ballet engagement nor a standard modeling assignment. The work exists at the intersection of classical ballet, fashion, photography, film, and visual performance, and it offers the right dancer an opportunity to apply her training in an entirely different creative environment.
The project will be developed with her, not simply presented through her. She will contribute to concepts, characters, styling, movement, and visual storytelling, while her individual qualities will influence the future direction of Ballet Heels. She will work with exclusive latex fashion created by latexkind, take part in carefully planned photography and film productions, and gradually develop her own way of moving and performing in ballet heels. She will not merely appear in front of the camera; she will help decide what the camera should see.
Previous experience with ballet heels is neither expected nor required. What matters is the foundation provided by serious classical training: balance, posture, strength, precision, body awareness, musicality, and the ability to communicate through movement. Working in ballet heels will be introduced gradually and adapted to the dancer’s individual abilities. Applicants should not buy or begin practising in them simply in order to apply.
The Artist I Am Looking For
The right person is an adult woman with professional classical ballet training and a strong desire to create something beyond the familiar structures of the ballet world. She may be at the beginning of her professional career, currently dancing with a company, working independently, or considering a new direction. She does not need to reject classical ballet or leave its discipline behind. On the contrary, the project depends on the knowledge, control, and artistic intelligence that only serious ballet training can provide.
Technique alone, however, will not be enough. I am looking for a dancer with presence, imagination, and a point of view of her own. She should be able to contribute ideas, communicate honestly, and take creative responsibility instead of waiting to be given every answer. Reliability, patience, curiosity, and professional commitment are as important as physical ability. She must also be able to work regularly in Cologne and to work safely with natural rubber latex.
Above all, she should have ambition. Not simply the ambition to be photographed or gain attention, but the ambition to build a distinctive artistic identity over time. The strongest candidate will be someone who senses that her training could lead somewhere unexpected and who is willing to explore what might exist beyond the next audition, the next production, or the next role assigned to her.
The World We Will Create
Ballet Heels is built on contrasts. It brings the precision of classical ballet together with sculptural footwear, latex fashion, and a bold contemporary image. It explores control and vulnerability, tradition and rebellion, elegance and provocation. The resulting work can be feminine, futuristic, powerful, and sensual, but its direction is always conceived through fashion, movement, character, and visual performance.
This aesthetic must be described honestly. Ballet Heels and latex carry cultural associations that cannot simply be erased by declaring that the work is “not fetish.” The aim is instead to create a clear artistic context in which the dancer has agency and understands exactly how she will be presented. Every concept, outfit, production environment, and intended form of publication will therefore be discussed in advance. Nothing should depend on ambiguity, pressure, or assumptions that were never openly addressed.
The dancer’s boundaries will be treated as part of the professional process, not as an obstacle to it.
She must be able to say what she is and is not comfortable with, and she must be confident that those decisions will be respected. A convincing artistic collaboration can only develop when both sides understand the vision, trust one another, and know the conditions under which the work will appear.
Working Together
Ballet Heels are demanding specialist footwear and require a careful approach. Working with them will never be treated as a test of how much pain someone is prepared to endure. Training will be progressive, with attention paid to physical readiness, stability, recovery, and the dancer’s own feedback. Pain or persistent instability is a reason to stop and reassess, because no photograph or performance is worth an injury that could compromise a dancer’s health or career.
The same clarity will apply to the professional arrangement. Compensation, working time, travel, image rights, publication, content usage, and personal boundaries will be defined in writing before production begins. The selected dancer should know what is expected of her, how the material will be used, and what she can expect in return.
This is meant to become a substantial professional role, not an informal promise built around a few photo shoots.
In return, she will receive more than visibility. She will become the focus of a long-term creative concept, wear fashion designed specifically for her, participate in original productions, and have genuine influence over the identity she presents. Ballet Heels already has a history, an archive, and an international audience, but the most important part of its future has not yet been decided. That future must emerge from the collaboration with the woman who takes on the role.
Could This Become Your Role?
Classical ballet teaches dancers how to give themselves fully to a choreographer’s vision while making years of discipline appear effortless. Perhaps you are now ready to use that discipline in a different way. Perhaps you want to do more than interpret an existing role and instead help create one that could only exist through your movement, your character, and your ideas.
You do not need to arrive with a finished persona or a perfectly formed plan for your future. You need a strong artistic foundation, intelligence, courage, curiosity, and the determination to develop something over time. I am not looking for someone who simply wants to try ballet heels. I am looking for someone who recognizes the possibility of building an extraordinary creative identity around them.
Alexandra’s work will always remain part of the Ballet Heels story, but the next chapter must have its own voice. The opportunity is not to inherit somebody else’s identity. It is to create a new one and, in doing so, establish a legacy that belongs entirely to you.
Who You Need to Be
Age: 18–24
Height between: 160–178 cm
Sporty and fit
Trained ballet dancer (you know your posture, balance, and technique)
No contact allergies
Based near or able to travel frequently to Cologne, Germany
How to Apply
If this opportunity speaks to you, please introduce yourself in your own words and explain why you are interested in the project. Include information about your ballet training and professional experience, your current location and availability, and your ability to work regularly in Cologne. Please also provide a current CV, recent portrait and full-length photographs, and, if available, a performance reel or links to artistic work that represents you.
Applicants must be at least 18 years old. Previous experience with ballet heels is not required, and you will never be expected to demonstrate it before the working conditions and safety process have been explained. Selected applicants will first be invited to a confidential conversation in which the creative direction, professional framework, compensation, boundaries, and possible next steps can be discussed openly.
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