I was the principal shopper for the New York City Ballet costume department, where I swatched, sourced, and purchased all the fabric, trims, materials, and tools needed by the costume shop for over 75 individual ballets, including more than 25 new works and large rebuilds.
These included works by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Pontus Lidberg, Warren Carlyle, and Kim Brandstrup; and costumes designed by Marc Chagall, Barbara Karinska, Irene Sharaff, Patricia Zipprodt, Dries van Noten, Humberto Leon, Zuhair Murad, Narciso Rodriguez, Marques ' Almeida, Tsumori Chisato, Jason Wu, Rosie Assoulin, and many more.
New Work | Justin Peck, Fall 2017 | Design: Tsumori Chisato
New Work | Myles Thatcher, Fall 2015 | Design: Zuhair Murad
New Work | Troy Schumacher, Fall 2015 | Design: Marta Marques & Paulo Almeida
Complete Rebuild | George Balanchine | Design: Karinska
New Work | Pontus Lidberg, Winter 2017 | Design: Rachel Quarmby-Spadaccini
New Work | Troy Schumacher, Fall 2017 | Design: Jonathan Saunders
New Work | Peter Walker, Fall 2016 | Jason Wu
New Work | Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Fall 2016 | Design: Rosie Assoulin
New Work | Justin Peck, Winter 2017 | Design: Humberto Leon
New Work | Christopher Wheeldon, Spring 2016 | Design: Janie Taylor
'Snowflakes' Rebuild | George Balanchine | Design: Karinska
See an excerpt of this work HERE.
New Work | Alexei Ratmansky, Spring 2017 | Design: Keso Dekker
New Work | Justin Peck, Winter 2016 | Design: Marcel Dzama
See the costumes in motion HERE.
Photography by Paul Kolnik | Featuring dancers of New York City Ballet | Courtesy of New York City Ballet