the nutcracker
Choreographed and staged by George Balanchine
Music by Peter Tchaikovsky
New York City Ballet
2021 re-design of Karinksa party girl dresses by Marc Happel and Joseph Shrope.
Originally Opened: February 2nd, 1954
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Scenic Designer: Horace Armistead, Rouben Ter-Arutunian (1964)
Lighting Designer: Jean Rosenthal
Costume Designer: Karinska. Masks by Lawrence Vlady
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COSTUME RENDERINGS and INSPIRATION
press
“Joseph Shrope set out to determine what details had been lost from Karinska’s designs over the decades of remakes and redesigns. He focused narrowly on what they call the Party Girls, the young guests at the Stahlbaums’ Christmas Eve party who chatter giddily with one another and hold out their skirts in a cheery jig.”