Ballet Figurines

by Anthea
(Australia)

Ballet Figurines.
I  am the principal of a ballet school.
All the ballet figurines I have seen have something dodgy about them , Like bad feet , bad arms , turned in bent legs. ?Do you think  one of our fabulous sculptors might create a ballet ?figurine based on a real ballerina ? ?There is a ballerina at the moment Svetlana Zakharova , She is AMAZING you can google her ,She has some incredible pictures on here web site. ?Darcy Bussel  would have been good  she has retired now though.
Also is there any more news on the new Peter Holland  garden  figurine ? ?I think it will be something else !!!

Best Wishes, ?Anthea


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Re. Ballet figurines.

Dear Anthea,

I have had a look at photos of Svetlana Zakharova and I agree with you that 
she is truly amazing.

John Bromley has done some good figures based on real 
people such as Margo Fonteyn, Alicia Markova and Annette Sibley, in the past 
for Compton & Woodhouse. I used to be product development director there so 
was involved with helping John to produce them. They were done in 
conjunction with the English National Ballet.

Peter Holland also has a ballet connection as his daughter is a young rising 
star with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

There are so many lovely ideas that 
we want to do. The problem is time (and money to develop them) but we have a 
ballet dancer on our list. I will make sure that you know as soon as we 
start to work on one. Your job will make you very useful as an expert 
adviser!.

Peter's 'English Garden' figurine is finished in his sculpting stage. It has 
been approved by Basia. The next stage is to get it moulded then work out 
how to apply all the flowers. We think that there will need to be 200 to do 
it full justice. The problem will be that this will make it very expensive. 
We are going to limit it to just 25 pieces, worldwide. We will probably end 
up throwing away more pieces than we sell because of the difficulty of 
producing them to a perfect standard. Can you imagine a figurine with 200 
flowers where just one of the flowers is damaged and makes it a second? 
There are no seconds in limited-editions so it would have to go in the bin!
The price might have to be around £1200. We know that this is way higher 
than anything else that we have done but at the same time is is not out of 
place if you look at Lladro pieces that are special. They would probably 
charge much more, in fact!

One thing is for sure, this will be a most amazing piece!