It’s widely known how jam-packed an Ailey dancer’s schedule is: the company averages between 175 and 200 performances each year. So it’s hard to imagine that these artists have time for anything else. Impressively, eight-year AAADT dancer Jermaine Terry has somehow maintained a second career in costume and clothing design. From wedding dresses to one-of-a […]

Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung were still students at the Fashion Institute of Technology when their first joint commission came along: Creating the costume for a Fall for Dance piece Andrea Miller choreographed on Drew Jacoby. The pair officially joined forces in 2011, forming their eponymous label and building a resumé that includes designing for […]

Dance and fashion make a perfect pair. Does anyone have more beautiful bodies than dancers? Who glorifies bodies more than fashion designers? Choreographers figured this out long ago. Martha Graham found compatible partners in Halston, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein, while Merce Cunningham chose Romeo Gigli and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, and Twyla […]

Costumes create a mood, set a scene, and transform performers into anything from a regal swan to a clumsy donkey. Some costumes do even more and take a leading role in the actual creation of the choreography. The most famous example may be the enveloping tube of stretch fabric designed and first worn by Martha […]