In April 2021, I was hired by The Ballet Club, a ballet studio in NYC that emphasizes individuality, creativity, and focused learning, to create a 20-min long video that tells the story of ballet. This video was designed to educate and inspire both children and adults about the history of ballet, the ballet experience, ballet class, and famous ballets like Sleeping Beauty. The videos were then incorporated into The Ballet Club's class curriculum. I was given a written outline of what should happen and then tasked with illustrating, animating, and editing the video. This project is currently ongoing and I have created over 10 minutes of animation in After Effects. I will end up creating over 100 illustrations using Illustrator.
This section describes ballets beginning in Italy and how ballet moved to France.
This section describes the evolution of pointe shoes.
This section tells the story of Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
This section describes Sleeping Beauty's prologue.