Tiny Tips: use a wine bag to organize shoes

Is your dance bag a chaotic mess because you have multiple pairs pointe shoes, ballet shoes, and jazz shoes to keep track of?  You can easily organize your shoes using a wine bag. Wine bags are small re-usable totes separated into 6 sections.  They are available at most grocery stores that sell alcohol (you do not have to be 21 to purchase a wine bag) and usually cost about $2.  Once you have a bag, pair up your shoes and slip a pair into each section.  You can also slip things like leg warmers or a leak-proof water bottle into the compartments if you don’t fill them all with shoes.  Keep the wine bag in your dance bag so your shoes stay organized.   Dance Theater of Harlem’s Ashley Murphy uses this organizational method, and so do I.