Yesterday was Costuming Day.
L to R: The Firebird (SweePo), by bink;
Prince Mir, by me; and Princess Penny Cooper, by sister
The Firebird flies.
Shots by bink of Dress Rehearsal, below:
There was a frenzy of paparazzi!
Orphan Reds' costumes were inspired by Leon Bakst's designs for Sergei Diaghilev's 1910 production by the Ballets Russes of Stravinksy's Firebird:
L to R: The Firebird (SweePo), by bink;
Prince Mir, by me; and Princess Penny Cooper, by sister
The Firebird flies.
Shots by bink of Dress Rehearsal, below:
There was a frenzy of paparazzi!
Orphan Reds' costumes were inspired by Leon Bakst's designs for Sergei Diaghilev's 1910 production by the Ballets Russes of Stravinksy's Firebird:
the crown is everything! I have some bears who would benefit from such a crown. Did you make it?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Linda Sue!
ReplyDeleteMy sister made the princess's headdress with the black beads, and my friend bink made the Firebird's white bead headdress.
The crowns are easy enough to make since I have strands of beadwork (off vintage clothes)--you just stitch them onto a bit of cloth,
or wrap them around the head and stitch the ends together.
If you like, I could send you a couple strands and you could make some for your bears.
(My email is frescadp at gmail.)
This looks like great craftiness, and great fun.
ReplyDeleteAre the Reds using the original Michel Fokine choreography? A later restating? Their own?
[“Michel Fokine”: Wikipedia is my friend.]
MICHAEL: It is huge fun!
ReplyDelete(Luckily it's easier to dress dolls who don't move in the round 360ยบ than to dress mobile humans, so great craft skills are not required.)
They didn't look at the original choreography--they wanted to make it up themselves and didn't want to be influenced.
Everything I know I learned from Wikipedia.
I love the princess' beaded headdress! Fantastic creativity, on your parts and on Leon Bakst's. :)
ReplyDeleteBravo! Brava! Encore!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Steve & Tororo!
ReplyDeleteThere shall be more...