Let’s start with the present now.
These couple of days is Ballet night.
The NYC Ballet Company just open their fall season yesterday
with a fabulous Fall Gala.
The Fall Gala besides opening the season it’s also an Event
where the Company work together with some of the great Fashion Designer to
design the costume and make the dance an art piece.
There’s Red Carpet in front of the Lincoln Center a couple
of hours before the show begin. Then a pre-show cocktail on the 2nd
ring lobby.
Then the show start with a introduction documentary about
the costume, Carolina Herrera design the costume for the first piece Morgen.
But with a big piece of Ballet like Morgen, it tends to
make people compare with all the principle dancers. Because it’s a couple piece
with 3 couples dancing in the same dance.
So there’s a clear significant for the premier principle and
non-premier.
But the set and the dance is still magnificent.
After the first piece, the orchestra rest and the gorgeous Carolina
Herrera take her bow. The costume is exquisite.
After the intermission, there’s a following of 4 short
pieces of Ballet.
The Bitter World, by
Dinah Washington accompanied the piece. With just 2 dancers in gray and skin
colored costume. It is beautifully choreograph, because there’s nothing that
take away from the dance, not even an orchestra or singer. Therefore, every
spin, turn, twist and plié and brisé is view in it’s entirety and in plain sight.
A great start for the 2nd section, then the 2nd dance is
Clearing Dawn, a 6 dancers piece with the most elaborate costume effects ever,
the dancers are dressed in gray navy suits and skirt. The extremely large coat
that covers the shirt at the beginning of the dance is pull up to the ceiling
to reveal the costume underneath. Clearing Dawn is a little bit about childishness
and bullying and fights and love. The giant Ego shadow of the giant costume we
put on the outside and the gray smaller discipline uniform within the
conformity to rules.
3rd piece is Funérailles, it’s about the funeral
and the love of our lives would be like. The costume piece is this exquisite
embroidered piece for the dying female character and the love dance around her,
lamenting her.
And the closing piece would be Balles-Lettres. The most
suitable piece to close the event. Of course the costume is all these letters
sewn onto Ballet stretching tights.
Since it’s a skintight costume with no frills, the dance
simply fly at ease.
The choreography is the largest in Scale with 7 dancers,
taking in the whole stage.
Every subtle changes in movement is exaggerated with some
beautifully executed Ballet techniques. And pointed out with formation by the
dancers.
So after the dances closed, we congratulate everyone and
start to stuff our mouth and hungry stomach at the real Gala.
Of course some of the costume that were worn there u’d
wonder how are these people going to sit down. So naturally some actually
just stand and eat a little and then walk out for cigarettes or just simply
chat away and leave half way through like we did to avoid breaking Eric’s Sober
Streak.
Enough said. Tonight will be the real start of the season
with Tchaikovsky and Balanchine opening night, which we got!!!!
So I’m off now to get ready!
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