Incurably romantic

From: Pointe | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Taglioni's tutu still inspires.

Remember when your ballet class consisted of playing "trolls and fairies," rather than doing tendus and fouettes? Chances are you dreamed of being a ballerina in a classical tutu or in the extended tulle of a romantic skirt designed to transport you to the next level of grace.

Introduced by Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide at the Paris Opera in 1832, the romantic tutu marked a brand-new trend in ballet costumes. Before its invention, dancers wore costumes based on the complicated and ridiculously heavy and constricting everyday dress of the aristocracy in the ...

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