by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Oct 17, 2016 | Company Life
Admit it: You’ve considered the various ways you could sneak your favorite costume home with you. We don’t blame you. Whether it’s a jaw-dropping tutu or the world’s most comfortable slip, costumes are made to make dancers look and feel...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Mar 28, 2016 | Company Life
When we first reported on Miami City Ballet’s redesign of George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we were, to be totally honest, mostly interested in seeing the costume for the character Bottom. Why? In the MCB production, which places Oberon...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jan 18, 2016 | Company Life
New York City Ballet resident choreographer Justin Peck has balletomanes everywhere on the edge of their seat, impatiently awaiting the premiere of his first narrative work, The Most Incredible Thing. Based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, the ballet will...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Dec 8, 2015 | Company Life
Do you have a favorite Sugar Plum Fairy costume? It’s kind of like trying to choose a favorite child—but each company decks out the show-stopping tutu in such unique and gorgeous ways that picking one isn’t really slighting the others. And anyway,...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Oct 12, 2015 | Company Life
(Eloise Smith, stockroom assistant in the costume department at the Royal Opera House, photo by Ruairi Watson) The Royal Opera House, home of The Royal Ballet, has launched a new university degree program in partnership with South Essex College and the University of...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Sep 21, 2015 | Company Life
New York Fashion week is well and good, but the dance world awaits New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala with equal anticipation. Each year, the company partners with couture designers to create elaborate, unexpected costumes for the handful of world premieres. Peter...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Looking around Susan Roemer’s San Francisco apartment, you’d never know she’s a ballerina. There are no performance mementos on the walls, no basket of unsewn pointe...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Nureyev’s impact on ballet reaches beyond his dancing. Not only did he increase the attention paid to male dancers at a time when most audiences focused almost solely on the ballerinas, he insisted on raising the level of ballet costumes. As a blog in the SF...