It’s a ballet tradition to give away or to sell worn-out slippers, signed by the person who wore them. (I have a few of that I’ve gotten through the years.) Now, David Hallberg is auctioning off the pair he wore on The Colbert Report for a good cause: The David Hallberg Scholarship Fund. This money will help provide a young male dancer with a chance to study at American Ballet Theatre’s school. Ballet training is an extremely expensive proposition in the US, especially in a major ballet school. In most countries, these company-attached schools are nationally supported, but in America they are not.
One slipper is signed by Stephen (“Nice package!), the other by Hallberg, and the starting price is $1000. Wish I could own them, but this is too rich for me! I hope they’ll go for a good sum. I’m sure that somewhere down the line I’ll get to enjoy the dancing of whoever receives the scholarship.
The auction is being held on eBay, and it ends on December 27th.
UPDATE: Here is the photo of the shoes that I couldn’t get earlier. Cheers all!
David Hallberg auctions his COLBERT REPORT shoes!
It’s a ballet tradition to give away or to sell worn-out slippers, signed by the person who wore them. (I have a few of that I’ve gotten through the years.) Now, David Hallberg is auctioning off the pair he wore on The Colbert Report for a good cause: The David Hallberg Scholarship Fund. This money will help provide a young male dancer with a chance to study at American Ballet Theatre’s school. Ballet training is an extremely expensive proposition in the US, especially in a major ballet school. In most countries, these company-attached schools are nationally supported, but in America they are not.
One slipper is signed by Stephen (“Nice package!), the other by Hallberg, and the starting price is $1000. Wish I could own them, but this is too rich for me! I hope they’ll go for a good sum. I’m sure that somewhere down the line I’ll get to enjoy the dancing of whoever receives the scholarship.
The auction is being held on eBay, and it ends on December 27th.
UPDATE: Here is the photo of the shoes that I couldn’t get earlier. Cheers all!