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A consummate costumer.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A consummate costumer.(costume designer Barabar Karinska)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
"Costumes [are] that which uncovers the soul," wrote the great theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig. "The flesh and bones are the costumes of the soul. Reveal them then." He could have been speaking of the ultimate triumph of Barbara Karinska, one of the great dance costumers of the twentieth century. Her fifty-year career, from 1927 to 1977, is inseparable from that of her most important collaborator, choreographer George Balanchine. She executed more than seventy-five of his ballets, and together they forever altered the appearance, line, and capabilities of the modern-day ballet dancer.

Karinska dressed her first ballet for Balanchine in Monte Carlo for the Ballets Russes in 1932; she took her magnificent farewell bow, at age 92, in New...

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