ABT – Firebird costume photos

Yesterday the costume maker Cygnet Studio published snapshots on its Facebook page of some of the corps de ballet costumes from Ratmansky's new Firebird for ABT; so, of course, all you Haglund'eelers get to see them, too.  Haglund likes the green costumes a lot - they're kind of Dreamy in the Ashton sense.  He hopes, however, that whoever wears the cream and yellow dresses doesn't end up doing steps recycled from NYCB's Namouna.  Click on each photo to enlarge it.

Here's a Paul Kolnik photo from NYCB's Namouna:

Comments

[K]

As long as he avoids those creepy swimming caps/headpieces he favored for Russian Seasons and Namouna!!

I'm not really seeing how these costumes work together, especially considering the Firebird will be in a unitard with a tail a la PNB Nutcracker peacock, but I guess there must be a cohesive vision behind it, right? They just seem so dissimilar in style.

[Haglund]

Hi K.

I don't think how the costumes work together is anyone's concern. The focus is going to be on the imported circus act and her MaryLou Retton gymnastic tricks.

Some of Ratmansky's work product is starting to look manufactured from the same mold. Kind of like Tide, Cheer, and Gain are basically the same products by Proctor and Gamble, but they have different scents and (at least) they have different packaging.

While having one's work be in great demand is a fine thing, when the creativity starts being recycled over and over again, it's not such a fine thing.