Tagged: ballet

A fresh view on wearables history

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Did you know the first example of garments containing lights gives back over one hundred years to 1884? I didn’t. This and lots of other intriguing and well researched material is in a great article on the history of wearables by Laurenti de’ Medici (more…)

Cascading electronic tutu for Brooklyn Ballet

Motion sensitive electronic tutu

Motion sensitive electronic tutu

The Brooklyn Ballet company initiated a succesful kickstarter project to fund the costumes for an up and coming production of the Nutcracker suite, central among these costumes is a motion sensing tutu with cascading LED lights. (more…)