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September 4, 2008 at 4:31 pm · Filed under dance, costumes, candice thompson, CANDICE, costume design, new chamber ballet, miro magliore
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.
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April 1, 2008 at 7:08 pm · Filed under dance, candice thompson, CANDICE, costume design, new chamber ballet
Last weekend New Chamber Ballet performed at City Center Studios with a program that had many of my costumes. So this morning, I awoke to a photo of my costumes in The NY Times! Unfortunately, you can’t see them well or really at all nor is it a photo of the newest work I did last week for the world premiere; however, it is still a bit of a cheap thrill to know your work made the presses, even for a hot second. They are black chiffon dresses with satin trim that hook and eye up the front and then fly open for a ballet called Silent Shadows. The Times always sends their own photographer who often is not particularly interested in those minor details we hum about behind-the-scenes.
You can click on the photo for a link to the review, congrats NCB!
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September 11, 2007 at 4:58 pm · Filed under dance, makeup, candice thompson, CANDICE, costume design, LOLAstretch, ad hoc Ballet, new chamber ballet, working man's clothes
So summer and vacationing is officially over for me and after going to the Jersey shore, Newport Beach and visiting my family a couple of times in AZ, I am back to school and working overtime! (like a true New Yorker:-)
Monday was a perfect example of my new fall schedule:
Having performed on Sunday at the Dancenow Festival at DTW with ad hoc Ballet, I was sore on Monday morning and so headed to a Pilates private session first thing in the morning at the Kane School. Elizabeth Brown, also of ad hoc Ballet, trains me and when she becomes certified and open for business, the wingers will be the first to know! Then I went downtown a few blocks to PMT Studios where I was rehearsing dancers for SIDESHOW, choreographed by Christopher Hutchings. It will premiere at Dixon Place in October 19th and 20th. And while I am sad that I am unable to perform in it due to travel plans, I am so excited about getting to work as a rehearsal director/ballet mistress. I love the problem solving element of coaching dancers and this piece is particularly fun because it involves some old pals from my class at NYU.
Photo: Breanne and Eric working on SIDESHOW.
From there I went to my first day of school at Creative Arts Studio. On Mondays I teach Ballet 3, Advanced Ballet and Pointe. We did a lot of placement, stretching and talking about goals for the year. It is very exciting to see new faces as well as the familiar faces who are brave enough to come back for another year of hard work.
And lastly, I finished out the night at a rehearsal for LORDS OF CHAOS, a new short play by Eric Sanders, directed by Julie Rossman. I am working on the makeup and costume design and consulting on all of the gorey special effects. It runs this Friday and Saturday at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 E. 7th Street, btwn. 2nd and 3rd Ave.) at 8p. It is part of the larger Binge Festival presented by Working Man’s Clothes and should be a really good time!
Photo: Michael Mason, Cole Wimpee, and Eric Sanders getting ready to rehearse. Lords of Chaos is about Norwegian Black Metal. For photos that are really mind-blowing and capture the essence of this subculture much better than my camera phone, check out the Brooklyn photographer Peter Beste at www.peterbeste.com
In addition to all of that I was fielding calls from my factory for LOLAstretch, trying to make the most of fashion week and what PLUM being in means for dancewear, working on costume sketches for the upcoming New Chamber Ballet show with two world premieres, and tallying receipts from the last show I costumed, YOU MAY GO NOW which just opened Sunday night at the 45th St. Theatre. That show runs for three weeks and has really beautiful writing, directing and acting. And for this Wednesday and Thursday nights, tickets are half off at theatremania.com so you really can’t go wrong!
It was a long day to say the least! But there is really some exciting stuff happening in dance and theatre and fashion this week and in upcoming weeks so here is my recap for now:
1. SIDESHOW
2. LORDS OF CHAOS
3. YOU MAY GO NOW
4. NEW CHAMBER BALLET
5. LOLASTRETCH–PLUM IS THE COLOR FOR FALL!
xoxo
Candice
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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.
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