Articles from the ‘Costumes Gone Awry’ collection

The Artful Shoe Drop

When you’re a high fashion dancing drag queen and you lose a shoe… From Monique Jenkinson: I have so many costume stories… There was a point at which I realized that what most inspired my dancing was costume, and things just fell into place from there. I have made so […]

October 23, 2014  |  Read Article

The Wrong Choice of Undergarments

When you shouldn’t have worn bright orange underwear… From John Jeffords: I was doing Peter and the Wolf at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. It was like glorified children’s theatre and a pretty quick rehearsal process which meant that our “dress rehearsal” was in front of an audience of […]

October 20, 2014  |  Read Article

The Hives Attack

When your cross-dressing costume gives you hives… From Maggie Stack: KT Nelson gets pretty ambitious when it comes to choreographing her children’s production of The Velveteen Rabbit. When I started with ODC, I hopped right into the bunny-suit extravaganza. There was a lot of velvet, which I was not aware […]

October 16, 2014  |  Read Article

The Shrinking Dancer

When the dancer shrinks? Oh, wait… it’s a different dancer without a headdress. From Sandi Kurtz: A few years ago, Pacific Northwest Ballet was in the middle of a run of Balanchine’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Their production was designed by Martin Pakeldinaz, and one of the costume elements for Hipolyta […]

October 13, 2014  |  Read Article