Ballet Costumes

For New York City Ballet’s collaboration with Swarovski on costumes for George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Marc Happel, the company’s director of  ballet costumes, stayed true to the original color palette while adding a new kind of sparkle, a new kind of flash.” On opening night at the New York City Ballet gala on May 10, male dancers will wear black velvet tunics embellished with jet crystals, and the women, white tutus and a top layer detailed with a spray of stones.

Uniquely, the cameras are given the freedom to follow Peck as he liaises with everyone involved in the process as it unfolds – from the musicians, under the direction of Andrews Sill , to the Resident Lighting Designer, Mark Stanley , and Costume Designers, Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung – under the direction of Marc Happel – to his 18 highly skilled fellow dancers, which include Principal Dancers Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin and Amar Ramasar.

Ballet 422 is directed by cinematographer and documentarian Jody Lee Lipes , one of the two directors of NY Export: Opus Jazz , a film of Jerome Robbins’ ballet in sneakers” – the first ballet conceived, created, produced and performed by dancers of New York City Ballet , and the first to return the choreography of Jerome Robbins to the streets of New York since the movie version of West Side Story.

By the 2000s however, Velasquez notes that dresses had changed considerably from their modest origins, now covered in geometric shapes, crazy colors, sequins and glitterdot fabrics … even resembling Toddlers in Tiaras costumes, with fluffy skirts and structured bodices.” Now, continues Velasquez, the costumes have transformed yet again, becoming less flashy and returning to traditional Celtic symbols.

Frequently an audition takes place before dancers are chosen for these programs, and you want to be sure your child has the ability and knowledge base to audition successfully The instructor or studio director may recommend extra classes (typically, ballet or other technique class), that the child enroll in another recreational session for more experience, or he or she may be confident that your dancer is ready.