Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse Symposium
Friday, March 6, 2020, 10 am - 5 pm
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Theater
Marvin Feldman Center, Second Floor
Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse was The Museum at FIT’s 23rd academic symposium. The one-day event explored the ways in which twentieth-century ballerinas and their glamorous, romantic costumes profoundly inspired modern fashion.
Speakers included Lynn Garafola, professor emeritus of Columbia University; Laura Jacobs, dance and fashion critic; Jane Pritchard, curator of dance at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and Patricia Mears, deputy director of MFIT and curator of Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse.
WATCH RECORDINGS OF ALL THE PRESENTATIONS ON THE MUSEUM AT FIT'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Symposium Schedule
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES | SYMPOSIUM READING LIST (PDF) | EVENT PHOTOS
Friday, March 6, 2020
10 am-1:00 pm
Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, Welcoming remarks
Patricia Mears, “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse” | Video
Laura Jacobs, “Crown Jewels: Reflections on the Ballerina” | Video
Caitlyn Lehmann, “Turbans, Tulle and Taglioni’s Influence on Fashion, 1830–45” | Video
Jane Pritchard, “Sylphs, Snowflakes and Soldiers: Fashionable Costumes for the Ballet Dancer in
the Late Nineteenth Century” | Video
Lynn Garafola, “Anna Pavlova: A Ballerina of Taste” | Video
1-2:30 pm
Lunch break
2:30 pm-5:30 pm
Rosemary Harden, “Enter the Ballerina: Margot Fonteyn and Fashion, 1930s–1960s” | Video
Russ Tallchief, “The Five Moons: Oklahoma’s Native American Ballerinas” | Video
Joel Lobenthal, “Dryads of West 55th Street” | Video
Theresa Ruth Howard, “Dark Muse: Balanchine and Blackness” | Video
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