Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1535749
16 • THE ARTISAN SUMMER 2025 of sorts, beautifully French. Lou de Laâge, as Cheyenne Toussaint, wildly French Étoile ballerina, reminiscent of Sylvia Guillem, edgy, wild Ivan du Pontavice as Gabin the French bad boy dancer. Gideon Glick as Tobias Bell, our savant choreographer. Simon Callow as Crispin Shamblee, our eccentric tycoon, with a love of the arts. David Alvarez as Gael Rodriguez, an exquisite dancer, tortured with a love-hate relationship of dance. Taïs Vinolo as Mishi Duplessis, our young ballerina, and David Haig, as Nicholas Leutwylek, modeled after American choreographer George Balanchine. We want it to look real. We want to be able to tell the differences between New York and Paris dancers. Oh, and by the way, we need to double three of our principals, and they need to be exact. It's going to be great! Now go do what you do. Meeting adjourned. As we all have dealt with the challenges of weather, different water and seasons, and how all the different elements can affect our hair, and the continuity of it. We tested a few different looks and many different products to find unique looks for each of our actors that would sustain. Next hurdle, the wigs. Our actors were in dance class and training and would be able to do some parts of the dance piece. en dance doubles would be needed for the more difficult parts of the pieces, meaning their hair had to be exact, from the beginning, middle, Lou de Laâge Luke Kirby with David Alvarez as Gael Ivan de Pontavice as Gabin