What can I put on my dance shoes to make them slippery?

Question

I have these gym shoes for one number and I can turn in them. They're way to rough/sticky.

Answer 1

Since I was 5, my dance company has always put a pile of rosen on the floor or in a plate and stepped in it in class and next to the stage. It works like a charm!!! It makes your shoes just slippery enough to glide on the floor, but not slippery enough to make you slip. It's amazing!!! Professionals use it everywhere!!

Answer 2

Dance Floor Wax Powder

Answer 3

PLease ignore all answers that have vasoline, baby oil, butter, etc. in them...that is ridiculous, will leave nasty slippery tracks everywhere you put your foot down. IF you really want dance shoes from gym shoes, go to the local shoe repair shop and have them apply CHROME SUEDE to the bottoms...that is what is on professional dance shoes...just enough glide to dance, just enough roughness to control your movement. You do NOT want to be slipping around anywhere on a dance floor. I am a dancer of many, many years...anytime someone dances in slick soled shoes, such as leather, they take a chance on a nasty spill. And stay away from parafin..it is far too unpredictable to dance with.

Answer 4

You can use a little baby powder to help keep from sticking. Be sure to use it just before you go on or in the wings before your big number. Just sprinkle some on the floor and put your foot on it and wiggle it around.

Rosin is used to create more friction, causing more "stickiness" not less.

Answer 5

I have a friend who glued to the bottom of her shoes Dr. Scholl's Mole Foam Padding. I am not sure if it would work on the rough-bottoms of gym shoes, but it cetainly worked on rough, grippy-bottomed street shoes.

Answer 6

Gym shoes are supposed to stick to the floor. A shoe repair shop could glue smooth leather to the soles. Tell them why you want to do it.

Rosin will make you stick to the floor, not slip. That's why they put rosin on violin bows, to make them stick to the strings.

Answer 7

Lawl! I had the same problem! Its ok :P STretch those things then: I suggest you not putting lotion or the mixing thing..Its gonna get worse cus ur stocking is gonna stick on tighter. Use the old method: Put your feet in then grab the bottom. There is going to be a clump of rolled stocking on the bottom. Pull ur way up with the stocking.. BLECK its hard to describe..

Answer 8

Wax maybe? I think that whatever you try to put on the shoes may wear off, may have to put flour on the floor.

Hopefully somebody will have a better suggestion.

Answer 9

To make them more slippery? You don't want them to slippery, ortherwise you won't be turning, the shoes will. Sometimes you just have to break them in more and just get used to them.

Answer 10

Vaseline or special shoe wax