Ballet Slippers worn by Janie Parker in The Sleeping Beauty: Museum Object and Cultural History
Ballet Slippers worn by Janie Parker in The Sleeping Beauty: date made: ca 1983. Associated Date: October, 1983. associated person: Parker, Janie.
The object in the museum catalogue
Ballet slippers worn by Janie Parker of the Houston Ballet in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty . Parker wore the slippers in the third act of perfomances given at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center, October 11-16, 1983, The shoes have been signed by the ballerina.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1983
- Associated Date: October, 1983
- associated person: Parker, Janie
- Object Name: Slippers, Pair of
- Physical Description: silk (overall material)
- Physical Description: elastic (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 8 in x 3 in; 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm
- associated: United States: Texas, Houston
- used: United States: District of Columbia
- Subject: Dancers
- web subject: Entertainment
- Subject: ballet
- general subject association: Dance
- ID Number: 1983.0552.01
- accession number: 1983.0552
- catalog number: 1983.0552.01
- Credit Line: Janie Parker
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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