ELIZA GAYNOR MINDEN

Katie Dietz

Eliza Minden’s Life

born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1959 grew up in Southport, Connecticut encouraged to dance by her mother earned a B.A. from Yale University http://auguste.vestris.free.fr/Interviews/E

lizaMinden.html

Center Stage Dance Clip

Why she made the product

She became aware of how painful dance shoes are

Original dance shoes only last once Expensive Modern materials for ballet shoes?

How she did it

created hundreds of prototypes replaced the cardboard with elastomeric www.dancehere.com

Her Company

www.dancer.com

Gaynor Minden Pointe Shoe

Comfortable shock-absorbent last three to six times longer than other

brands

Thank You!