If there was ever any doubt The Houston Ballet actually can do a manufacturing – each on and offstage, as final month’s Houston Ballet Ball 2018: Swan Lake demonstrated.
Though Harvey’s ballet was evicted from its residence at Wortham Theater Middle, it had its greatest ball thus far on Saturday, February 17, when practically 500 friends dazzled at this 12 months’s venue, the Houston Ballet Middle for Dance. There, Richard Flowers and The Occasions Firm, beneath the creative route of Stanton Welch AM, created a person expertise that corresponds to the theme of the ball: Swan Lake.
On the annual occasion, United Airways was honored for 15 years of help by the corporate to the ballet. In complete, the ball raised greater than $ 1.4 million for the Houston Ballet – a banner 12 months.
On the venue, Houston Ballet Academy college students soared across the room as white swans (plus a black swan) and henchmen, and friends dressed to impress. Most spectacular, nevertheless, was Naeem Khan Couture’s customized gown on Hallie Vanderhider, the chair of this 12 months’s ball. Nearly 3,500 pure coque feathers shaped the skirt and its flowing prepare in addition to a sequined mesh overlay, paired with a basic heart-shaped neckline. After dinner, Vanderhider placed on a fuschia Monique Lhuillier gown to hit the dance ground.
The venue, which took per week to increase, enlivened the black and white theme with a tented ballroom, linen-covered cocktail space, swans flying over a customized pond, and a eating room divided by a mirrored runway beneath 5 crystal chandeliers. All of the white flooring, desk linen and centerpieces on one aspect stood in stark, glamorous distinction to all of the black ones on the opposite.
A black and white impressed menu from Metropolis Kitchen included jumbo crab meat with white asparagus and Belgian endive, charred lemon coulis and shaved black truffle, prime aged beef fillet with spicy leek bread pudding and oven-roasted salsify, grilled sea bass with beluga lentils and withered evening cabbage “Black and white deconstructed” – Chocolate genoise with bittersweet chocolate ganache, white cake crumble, Ile Fottante and darkish chocolate truffles coated with white chocolate and topped with chocolate mousse.
Friends bid on silent public sale objects, together with a two-week keep for 5 at Villa Da Motta in Veddo di Maccagno, Italy; a New York Style Week VIP bundle with tickets to the Spring 2019 reveals for Oscar de la Renta, Naeem Khan, Carolina Herrera, and Pamella Roland; Nearly 20 items from Tenenbaum Jewelers, together with an 18-karat yellow gold diamond bracelet and a Cartier “Santos 100” watch; and a personal lunch for 22 with Lynn Wyatt in La Griglia.
The evening ended with – what else – dancing, albeit on a mirrored dance ground, to music from Social gathering on the Moon.