Backstage at Dress Rehearsal “What else?” Veronika Iblová sighs, hands on hips, looking around at the tangle of girls in leotards, jeans, leopard costumes, or dressed as butterflies. The director of the VIP International School of Ballet is doing makeup for the dance school’s final production in its first year of operation. Mrs Iblová grabs a tube of lipstick and dabs it on the lower lip of a teenage girl…
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Monday, August 1, 2011: Dress Rehearsal!
Backstage at Dress Rehearsal “What else?” Veronika Iblová sighs, hands on hips, looking around at the tangle of girls in leotards, jeans, leopard costumes, or dressed as butterflies. The director of the VIP International School of Ballet is doing makeup for the dance school’s final production in its first year of operation. Mrs Iblová grabs a tube of lipstick and dabs it on the lower lip of a teenage girl…
Ballet’s New School
The music is cued, the massive, wall-to-wall mirrors are polished, and the faculty is on its toes, poised to welcome students to a new, English-instruction ballet school in Prague. VIP International School of Ballet, also known as the International Ballet School, starts classes on Sep 21. Its facilities nestle in part of the National Theatre Ballet school’s 14th-century complex. The school is the first ballet school operating exclusively in English,…
