When I saw one girl doing six pirouettes I thought OK the pirouette drought is over. I haven’t seen anyone do six pirouettes. I’m talking of a woman. I didn’t see any of these Dutchmen doing six either you did an amazing thing God bless you
Re: Your Garden Dance: Tights in a performance are part of costuming. In a corps, they are part of creating the symmetry so important in ballet. The notion of matching tights to skin tones is misguided - ridiculous. Clashing tights break the symmetry and unfairly - negatively, or positively leaving the others out - draws full attention to dancers wearing the mismatched tights (or no tights). By all means match tights to skin tones or anything else in the studio, or even in solo parts. In an African ballet company performing Swan Lake, how do you think it would look with a corps, all wearing darker tights, with one white dancer in pink tights or no tights. Perhaps that picture will illustrate the absurdity of this new idea. In your Forsythe piece, great symmetry and look with all the dancers in black, cut-off tights. How would it go down if a light skinned dancer insisted on wearing white tights. This is a costuming issue, not a race issue. As far as skin color goes (I believe we all belong to one race, the human race), the trials, tribulations and commitment to be accepted into great companies, such as the Dutch National Ballet, are the same for all dancers. Black dancers are equally as good as white dancers; and in my many years of being in the ballet world, I have been in class with, and watched many extraordinarily good black dancers - watching them at the Dutch National Ballet too. They don't need to be separated out by wearing different costumes than the rest of the dancers. Having said that, congratulations on being able to all move to one building when that new building is completed. Most of all, thank you for all you do for ballet, so often featuring your amazing dancers, choreographic works, teachers and classes. We are privileged beyond words, to be able to peek into your incredible company, when we can't be at performances in person.
I'd love to see the full Poulenc Suite. Great energy and dancing.
When I saw one girl doing six pirouettes I thought OK the pirouette drought is over. I haven’t seen anyone do six pirouettes. I’m talking of a woman. I didn’t see any of these Dutchmen doing six either you did an amazing thing God bless you
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Re: Your Garden Dance: Tights in a performance are part of costuming. In a corps, they are part of creating the symmetry so important in ballet. The notion of matching tights to skin tones is misguided - ridiculous. Clashing tights break the symmetry and unfairly - negatively, or positively leaving the others out - draws full attention to dancers wearing the mismatched tights (or no tights). By all means match tights to skin tones or anything else in the studio, or even in solo parts.
In an African ballet company performing Swan Lake, how do you think it would look with a corps, all wearing darker tights, with one white dancer in pink tights or no tights. Perhaps that picture will illustrate the absurdity of this new idea. In your Forsythe piece, great symmetry and look with all the dancers in black, cut-off tights. How would it go down if a light skinned dancer insisted on wearing white tights.
This is a costuming issue, not a race issue. As far as skin color goes (I believe we all belong to one race, the human race), the trials, tribulations and commitment to be accepted into great companies, such as the Dutch National Ballet, are the same for all dancers. Black dancers are equally as good as white dancers; and in my many years of being in the ballet world, I have been in class with, and watched many extraordinarily good black dancers - watching them at the Dutch National Ballet too. They don't need to be separated out by wearing different costumes than the rest of the dancers.
Having said that, congratulations on being able to all move to one building when that new building is completed. Most of all, thank you for all you do for ballet, so often featuring your amazing dancers, choreographic works, teachers and classes. We are privileged beyond words, to be able to peek into your incredible company, when we can't be at performances in person.