BALLETDREAM (amateur ballet theatre)Ballet Costume Designer
Mar. 2018 - Apr. 2019Moscow, Moscow City, RussiaBALLETDREAM is an amateur ballet theatre and studio. It unites professionals from various fields, creating full-scale productions with passion and dedication. The company has staged unique adaptations of Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Le Corsaire. Over a year of barter-based work, I designed and produced over 50 costume sets for the corps de ballet and soloists (Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle), balancing aesthetics with cost efficiency. Invited as the principal soloist for BALLETDREAM’s debut production of Swan Lake under a creative barter arrangement, I combined performance preparation with costume design and production. In the project’s early stages, costumes were either custom-made or rented, and my role was to create stage-ready designs while minimizing material and production costs. For later productions, a professional sewing workshop was brought in, building on my initial designs.