There is a large building in downtown Moscow where the costumes, scenery and shoes are created for The Bolshoi Ballet. Our Relief Society Enrichment group was given a guided tour today. We were taken into the 3 story room where we watched scenery painters paint "soft" scenery. The net like curtains that are painted and hung as part of the scenery in front of the "hard" scenery. Then we walked around the costume workshop watching the many woman diligently creating various costumes. ..lots of Tu Tu's.
Then our tourguide's granddaughter modeled some costumes.
The man that makes 8 shoes or 4 pairs of toe shoes each day showed us some of his tools and explained (through the translator) the steps of creating shoes for the dancers.
way cool! I'm jealous
ReplyDeleteif making shoes is what it takes to have such a relaxed dress code, count me in! ;)
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