by Suzannah Friscia | Oct 12, 2016 | Company Life
It’s okay to want to feel like a princess sometimes. Let shades of carnation and rose gold, and dustings of glitter, whisk you away to the pink fantasyland of your dreams.
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 Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Dancers aren’t the only ones who defy gravity onstage. Tutus have their own magical way of looking otherworldly. Ever wondered how you could create your own from scratch? Prescott & Mackay, an independent fashion design school with locations in London and...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Sometimes I wish I were best friends with all the world’s ballet costume designers and wardrobe supervisors. They have such fascinating perspectives on ballet history and the dancing body, and they’re gifted artists in their own right. Plus—at least...