Wednesday, November 23, 2011

CHANNELING OUR INNER BALLERINA...SO WE HAVE THE PERFECT POSTURE

<span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Head Pieces, Designed by Richard Hudson for Romeo & Juliet</span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Head Pieces, Designed by Richard Hudson for Romeo & Juliet</span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>These are Juliet’s girlfriends. We had this fabric printed because we couldn’t find anything that was suitable. It seemed simpler to choose a plain fabric and have it dyed. –Richard Hudson </span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>The shapes and the size of the costumes is really amazing. The height of hats, its not an exaggeration. It was a sign of your wealth to show off how rich you were by the voluptuousness of your costume. –Richard Hudson</span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>This is Juliet’s dress. It is hand dyed in our dye room. – Richard Hudson</span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>This is Tybalt at the ball. It’s kind of like an 80’s Chanel look. – Grant Heaps</span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Head Pieces, Designed by Richard Hudson for Romeo & Juliet </span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Pointe Shoes, Freed of London</span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>The dancers wear about 120 to 150 pairs of pointe shoes a year. When I order, I order in lots of thirty and it will take about four months for those shoes to come. They are $85 a pair and they last about eight hours maximum. – Lorna Geddes</span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Jakets from Romeo and Juliet</span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Dress from the Nutcracker </span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'></span><span class='fancyPhotoName'>Masks from the Nutcracker </span><span class='fancyPhotoDesc'>I go to Italy a lot, at least once a year for holidays, so I am very familiar with the history of Italian painting, frescos, and architecture - all those things. So those were really what inspired the sets and the costumes. Mainly the frescos by Piero della Francesca. - Richard Hudson</span><span class='fancyPhotoName'></span>

Channeling our inner ballerinas so we have perfect posture is a bit easier when we picture these amazing costumes from Romeo and Juliet via the Coveteur from the  - National Ballet of Canada in Toronto. We can just see that string pulling up our shoulders in any of the costumes above. FYI ballerinas wear out up to 150 point shoes every year. 
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  1. AnonymousMay 19, 2012 at 1:17 AM

    If you want perfect posture you mustn't pull up your shoulders - quite the opposite. Instead, feel the string attached to the top of your head and being pulled up.

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