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 21-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 storyboarding, illustrating, animating, editing, and rendering the video. This project is currently ongoing. So far, I have created over 130 illustrations using Illustrator.
Section 1: This section describes the experience of going to a ballet at Lincoln Center.
Section 2: This section describes ballets beginning in Italy and how ballet moved to France.
Section 4: This section describes the evolution of pointe shoes.
Section 8: This artistic section interprets ballet as "living paintings."
Section 9: This section tells the story of Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Section 10: This section describes Sleeping Beauty's prologue.
Section 12: This section describes the ending of a ballet performance at Lincoln Center.