Wow again, I had FOUR families cancel on me the day of the ballet tour. Luckily three families did not cancel and we were able to go on with the tour. It was a great tour! Some of the cool things...
Each pair of toe shoes... $60.00. How long do they last? Two days at the most. How much does the ballet company spend on ballet shoes for their girls yearly? About $80,000. A YEAR.
Here is one of the lovely seamstresses showing us how she sews the dresses, tutus, and other costumes. All gems must be hand sewn. Hours and hours of work for each outfit.
Here we are entering the wardrobe storage room. She is holding up the crocodile and dog heads from the Ballet Peter Pan. Those heads were also hand made in the studio. Hand making the costumes and renting them out to other ballet companies and shows is one of the ways they subsidize the cost of the shoes (among other costs, I am sure...)
Look Bret is a ballet fairy pig... Well she is among the dancing pigs anyway. At the end of the tour we got to sit and watch some of the ballet practice for the Nutcracker. Our tour guide held on a bit long with the hopes that we would get to see them dance a good portion of their dance. But mostly they were just going over their parts. It got a little long for my girls. They might do better at the actual ballet where there are costumes and constant dancing. It was a great tour. We all enjoyed it. But I think I will be canceling the last tour. I don't have a problem getting RSVP's, funny enough. The hard part is getting people to actually show up. ;-)
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