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From the Page to Stage

September 4, 2008 at 4:31 pm · Filed under dance, costumes, candice thompson, CANDICE, costume design, new chamber ballet, miro magliore

CANDICE THOMPSON
Ad Hoc Ballet
Brooklyn, NY USA
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Tomorrow night New Chamber Ballet opens its season at City Center with 3 new ballets by Miro Magloire, Lauren Toole and Constantine Baecher. The last few weeks I have been designing and constructing 10 new costumes, with mulitple pieces per costume, in the midst of end-of-summer vacations and Labor Day weekend. It goes without saying, it has been nuts! But I am really excited about them, mainly because they represent a pretty big departure from the norm for me.

Sketch of female costume for Baecher’s Arachnophilia. It is a nude unitard with a tunic dress and cowl neck veil of varying nets and meshes that I have cut into.

{The ladies of New Chamber Ballet: Elizabeth, Emily, Maddie and Emery. First fitting over practice clothes, without unitards. Took me a few moments to realize Emily and Emery needed to switch and a bit longer decide what needed to be added or taken away once they started moving in them. Basically, I am constantly adding to and editing it in my head.)

Tonight is dress rehearsal and I still have to hook and eye and put straps on all of the dresses for Cascade (Toole’s ballet). It is at times such as this, I like to remember that there are stories of Karinska getting into the cab at 8p on opening night to head for the theatre with the costumes and dancers waiting in the wings in just their pink tights! Yes, I will take a deep breath in and remember I am actually very, very close to the end result………..the performance, when I can finally exhale!

Tomorrow night and Saturday at 8p. City Center Studios. 4th Floor.

Costuming and Cutting Hair

May 25, 2007 at 1:49 am · Filed under theatre, CANDICE, costume design, LOLAstretch, ad hoc Ballet, new chamber ballet, working man's clothes, american place theatre, miro magliore

Posted by Candice Thompson

Since ad hoc Ballet is on hiatus until August, I have switched gears fully to concentrate my creative energies on LOLAstretch and my costume design projects.

And today was all costume design…..I had a meeting with New Chamber Ballet’s Artistic Director, Miro Magloire, about two sets of new costumes for their upcoming show. We talked about the composers for the two pieces, Mozart and Sciarrino, and how the music can influence the color choices. I am holding off on sketching until I have seen the most recent rehearsals.

Then I headed to a rehearsal in midtown for an off off Broadway play, Penetrator, produced by Working Man’s Clothes (a great group of multi-disciplined theatre artists that are a riot to work with as evidenced by the photos below) and directed by Jeremy Torres. The three actors brought in some clothes for me to look at per my request and I made lists of what items still needed to be gathered. Then I wielded some multi-purpose scissors and proceeded to cut strategic bald spots into the actor, Michael Mason’s hair. He is very brave!

The show opens in a next week at the American Place Theatre.