We haven't had a silly topic in awhile. I did the Hallowe'en Party a few years ago, but I think it's one of the posts that got sucked into the Great Beyond.

There's this Virtual Hallowe'en Party. Everyone is invited, and asked to come as a figure -- person, role, character -- from ballet. Who will you be? (Answer with costume possibilities more than merely personal favorites in mind, please )

I'd like to attend as Madge, so I could tell everyone's fortune and "stir" up trouble!

I'd love to be the Swan in Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake," but I'm female, so there might be a slight problem with the costume...I'd just have to go the right party, I guess.

Oh, this is a virtual party, so you can come as any age or gender you want. I'd thought of having a special Mardi Gras party for cross-dressing, though, so you might want to save it for that, djb.

pmeja, Madge is perfect -- the seasonal ballet character! And you can have first dibs on the fortune telling concession!!

Either the Bluebird from Sleeping Beauty or the Savage from Excelsior...probably the Bluebird. That Savage costume is so revealing.

Editing to say: Even better--I'm coming as Erasmus the Troll from Barbie Swan Lake! Well it was that or the talking porcupine...

This isn't a ballet role. It's just that I always wanted to be Supergirl. Our university is in a city that treats Halloween VERY seriously. So much so, that our annual concert runs this week Thursday, Saturday and Sunday -- off Friday night!

On the last day before Halloween, we come to class in costume. Last year, I finally came as Supergirl. It's amazing to go across the floor in a cape! Jete, jete, wheeeee!

Ballet-related costumes only, please. This wasn't meant to be a thread about what we were really going to do on Hallowe'en.

Hans, the Talking Porcupine has decided potential.....

I always liked the Odette costume Streisand wore in "Funny Girl." I could make my entrance to the party announcing, "Whaddya gonna do, shoot the svans? Dese lovelies? My svansgirls?"

Hmmmmph! Pmeja, you took my choice! :angry: ::stamping feet:: ::beating fists:: So if I Madge is taken, I'll be Carabosse. And since I'm Carabosse, I'll insist on a full retinue of rats. And skirts with lots of black silk to toss around menacingly.

Auditions for rats and svangirls Thursday, noon. (But Carbro, you could do Madge in a different make up! We want everyone to be happy.)

Okay; I'm coming as Madge as Erik Bruhn. Carbro maybe you can be Madge as Sorella Englund? :grinning:

As always, I would be the drummer boy from Graduation Ball. Talk about the life of the party! Either that, or one of those Cuban guys from Canto Vital (as if!).

Think of the social possibilities -- the Canto Vital Guys meet the Svangirls!! Polka at 9

OK, I'm coming as Thing. You know, the character in Napoli who helps Teresina with her onstage costume change?

Mel has just volunteered to spend the entire evening under the floorboards, peering up at women's skirts, looking for a string to yank, but that's okay.

Hey, who said anything about the rest of me? Thing, after all, is just a hand!

Tough job, but . . .

Alexandra, I am getting into the Carabosse mode! But, Pmeja, if I do decide to be Madge, I think I'll be Shelley Washington's Madge.

But Mel, you could come as Quasimodo!!! A full service bell ringer!

I can't come then, but I'll make a poster and put it on the bulletin board here

If anyone else wants a retinue, the Mouse King and Lilac Fairy are still available!


Maybe, but does it count as a ballet costume?

Both ugly stepsisters in Ashton's Cinderella - The tall one and later as the evening wears on the shorter one.

Need cavaliers though.... Any takers?

I will be the "Burning Girl" from Herbert Ross' "Caprichios". The makeup is wonderful, very pale and gaunt, with deep, dark circles around the eyes. And, I like the white costume. B) Plus playing a martyr and getting to die is fun!

I'll be the sleepwalker from La Sonambula... someone has to represent Balanchine !!!! :grinning:

More Balanchine to the rescue...I'd like to come as the Mistress of Ceremonies from Cotillon and get to wear that divine dress with the bat wings. But at Midnight, I'd morph into the ballerina in "The Hand of Fate" - another with a fabulous gown. That party was not innocent, it could have been a Halloween soirée.

I come as Firebird, of course. My colours and I get to do the great makeup!

That is for cocktails.

For dinner, I get to change to the wonderful black and cream Karinska costume from La Valse.

After dinner, for champagne and dancing, it's the Vienna Waltzes gown, of course.

Certainly you don't expect me to confine myself to *one* change of clothes for an entire evening?

I think I'll dress down this year. Perhaps Phlegmatic.....

:party:

The Tomboy Cowgirl from "Rodeo." No tutus or tiaras, please. This role would be 7th heaven for someone who grew up with six boys and likes her ballet tempered by high stepping fun. And gosh, this will be one night this hyperextended dancer won't have to worry about keeping her heels together. Giddyup!

Not really into cross-dressing, but can't pass this chance up: The Cygnets...yes, all four...cuz I'm gonna have the Lion King puppeteers make the other three and connect them to my limbs so we'll be totally in unison. Of course, I'll need to get up on pointe and then there's all that boring dancing stuff, but what an entrance!

I think I'll come as the roi soleil -- if I can find my sunburst wig -- i know it's around here somewhere.....

Ooh, I want to come as the Ballerina from Petrushka, and wear the exact same costume as the picture of Karsavina. Can I have her eyes too?

Little Red Riding Hood from Balanchine's Sleeping Beauty. :grinning:

And while my hand is playing Thing in Napoli, the rest of me will play the Pasha in Le Corsaire. You don't really need two hands for that. So here, I'm volunteering to look DOWN the cleavages of ladies' costumes and leering a lot and trying to make the toes of my slippers uncurl.

This is Hallowe'en, so either one of the punks from Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus, or one of the Royal party-goers from AMP's Swan Lake - specifically the one with the long red heir worn down when everyone else's was up, in a short dress when everyone else wore long, and who behaved "inappropriately" with any and all male staff and guests. That role always reminded me of someone .....

Jane

I'll go as Petipa's Esmeralda............now I just have to find a goat!

The Bronze Idol, perhaps, for the sake of the costume -- this is assuming I can exchange my current body for something a bit more svelte. If I had to pick something appropriate to my age and ability (bleah), then either Dr. Coppelius or the Baron de Zabrus (from "The Gilded Bat").

LOL! Tancos, don't worry - this is fantasy land! Hmm, maybe I should renege on my Little Red Riding Hood and go for Titania in Ashton's Dream? B)

Gosh this stacking up as some party. We could use a really good doorman, tho. Something in the nature of a balletic version of that butler in "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

Oh, I've hired Von Rothbart and Golfo (from Napoli) to be the doormen.

Great ideas, everyone -- last time we did it, as I remember it, nearly everyone wanted to be Swamp Thing (from ABT's Swan Lake). It was THE costume of the year.

You know, I hear Siegfried's place is free but it's a bit overdone. Where will the party be held?

Carabosse said we could all come over to her place, but we'd have to find it. Golfo looked at the floor and fidgeted, so I guess the Blue Grotto is out. Dracula seemed a bit over-eager. Maybe we should be post-postmodern and have it backstage, with the whole backstage area exposed and lots of harsh lighting?

BTW, I got an urgent email from Death in "La Valse" reminding me that I'd promised him he could be a doorman this year. Apologies.

Although I did hear a rumor that the Old Met might be willing to make a one-night-only comeback as a venue...

Yo, Thing, save me a dance...

you too, Carabosse!

Maybe we could convince King Florestan to open his ballroom for us...just as long as Catalabutte has absolutely nothing to do with the guest list. And wouldn't it be great if we could get some servants from La Bayadère to do the catering? Yummy Indian food

Watch out for the snakes in the centerpieces, tho... :rolleyes:

Good one, pmeja

I'll come as The Siren from Prodigal Son. She's got the best hat. I will need a Prodigal Son though.

That's it, someone has to come as Serge Lifar...

Apart from being the wrong sex, I'm not pretty enough to come as Lifar. However, if dido can have Karsavina's eyes as the Firebird, I shall appropriate Fonteyn's entire body and come as the Firebird, too.

I will come as the Fourth Movement girl from Western Symphony, the one with the huge Karinska hat.

I'm especially pleased to see that hats are making a come back -- we may be starting a trend!

I'd be Allegra Kent in "Faun," arriving at the party sometime in the Afternoon (tee hee), then

change to Muenier's 4th movement of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, and/or Tzigane by early evening, as the sun begins to set in bright crimson and purples, then

at nearly midnight, under a summer night's stars, a sampling of waltzing, et al., in Diana's Liebeslieder, just before becoming Suzanne's Diamonds... Don't set the morning alarm. Ever.

(The above, of course, accompanied by the romantic, true, passionate partner(s) of my choice...)