How a Pacific Northwest Ballet Dancer Keeps Turning

Lesley Rausch carefully encircles each toe with masking tape. The big toenail, with its tendency to purple and crack, warrants special ministrations. SecondSkin, a medical-grade adhesive, is applied—but even that won’t be enough to shield the appendage from the coming onslaught. Rausch sticks a breathable foam round on top as a final line of defense, and then wriggles a foam makeup wedge between her big toe and the rest as a provision against bunions. Finally, she extracts a few pre-torn, neatly folded sheets of paper towels from her bag, and wraps them around the entire intricate configuration. She’s ready to go en pointe. 

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