Ballet Dance Costumes
Beautiful Ballerinas

The very first ballet tutu was worn by the ballerina, Marie Taglioni. This was in 1832 during the Romantic period and Taglioni was performing in La Sylphide.

The costumes are very important to every ballet performances.

Take Swan Lake, Nutcracker or Sleeping Beauty and they all have specific costumes that must be worn by the dancers.

Without the costumes, a performance is not finished to perfection.

There are many, many different designs of dance costumes and you will see long dresses, traditional tutus, leotards, unitards. The ballerinas usually wear a graceful dress or tutu and the male dancer wear fitted tights with a tunic.

The costume always works in relation to the ballet and it is always there to complement the story or character. For example, in The Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy is the gracious Queen of the Kingdom of Sweets.

Therefore, her costume is very grand and elaborate. She wears a classic tutu with elaborately gold lace and a delicate pink bodice, perhaps also with puffed sleeves and a jeweled headdress.

Dancing in ballet costumes feels very different from just dancing in a ballet leotard.

Although ballet costumes look really spectacular and can definitely help make you feel in the role, they can be restricting at first and make a difference to your movements.

It is only subtle, but if you are used to practicing in just a leotard and tights then it gives you more freedom then wearing a long dress or round tutu.

Professional ballet dancers rarely wear their costume in everyday rehearsals, they wear their casual warm up clothes or leotards.This means, the dress rehearsal is very important for the whole team of a ballet company.

For dancers, they must feel what the costume is like and practice the movements. For the ballet teachers too, they must see what the costumes look like on stage and the technicians must check the costumes look good in the lighting.

The dress rehearsal is also a significant time to check the fitting of the costume, because often there are little adjustments to be made such as tightening the straps or sewing any ladders.

If you are looking for a ballet dance costume, then first look at some pictures of the sort of style you want. The internet is GREAT at these sort of things, where you can browse around and really get some ideas of what you need.

I know that ballet dance costumes can be very costly, which sometimes means thinking of alternative ideas. Can you hire a costume? Or make one with your family? Can you find a better bargin online?

Remember, when buying costumes online, you need to take attention to getting the right size with your measurements. Particularly with tutus as they should be exactly fitted to the dancer.

If you get no luck from the dance websites, then have a look in your local dance shops too and visit from your dance school to see if anyone can help.

It is the little details that count most when finding a ballet dance costumes. Professional dancers are lucky enough to have the costumes supplied by the wardrobe department, as it is part of the job. But if you need to find one yourself, then make sure the costume is significant to the dance and don't give up searching!

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