Saturday 16 February 2008

Ballet Design


If you want to destabilize any self-satisfaction you might have about your body image try working with dancers! It's not just that they are tiny, which they are, but their fitness and grace makes them seem to belong to an entirely different species. I feel like a Labrador among Italian whippets! There's no point in bothering about it, they simply belong to a different gene pool...
Apart from the ballets which occur in operas such as Prince Igor and the Baroque dancers in Purcell's "The Fairy Queen" I have not actually designed costumes for a classical ballet before.

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