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KRISTIN SLOAN |
My office at NYCB happens to be on the same floor as the men’s dressing room. My trek down the hallway that leads to the admin offices is usually full of mens costumes from whatever ballets are going at the time.
This week the company has been doing Susan Stroman’s silent-film-inspired work Double Feature. The second feature of the piece is called Making Whoopie, and consists of a bevy of brides (both male and female) running, leaping and trampling over each other, all across the stage. So this week, the men’s costume area has been filled with modified wedding gowns. This past Saturday I went with a friend to a bridal atelier where she tried on potential gowns, and the juxtaposition in my mind of those two scenes was pretty funny.
