CUTTING SHAPES
High above Wellington’s Courtenay Place, under harsh fluorescent lights, sewing machines whirr and metres of tulle are transformed into delicate tutus.
Welcome to the Costume Shop, the wardrobe department of the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB), where a team of up to 20 dressmakers painstakingly craft the costumes worn by the national ballet company’s 37 dancers.
It’s where you have to go to find the RNZB’s artistic director, Patricia Barker. Usually the American import would be
