Shoes/Tights

  • All: Skin tone ballet flats in good condition

  • All: Skin tone tights in good condition

    • Ensure that your shoes and tights match one another and the skin tone of your arms.

  • Individual dancers may be asked to provide black or white shoes and tights

  • Pointe dancers: Two prepared pairs with elastic ribbons sewn in a loop, pancaked skin tone

Undergarments 

  • All dancers should wear skin tone (“nude”) dance undergarments (leotards or separates) under their costumes. 

  • Dancers will need to do quick costume changes backstage and will need appropriate undergarments for these times. Please contact dnc-communitydance@uiowa.edu for further guidance as needed. 

Hair 

Please do not dye hair an unnatural color before the concert. 

  • Hair elastics (match hair color) 

  • Hairpins (match hair color) 

  • Recommended: MetaGrip Premium Hair Pins (available at Sally Beauty Supply and on Amazon) 

  • Hair nets (match hair color)

  • Hairspray and gel/mousse

  • Personal styling tools (brush, comb, spray bottle, etc.) 

  • *Very short hair that cannot make a bun should be styled firmly with mousse/gel away from the face. Use pins/clips as needed. 

Makeup 

Makeup enhances dancers’ natural features so that faces have dimension under bright stage lights. Please use colors and application styles that enrich, rather than alter features (i.e. no neons, blues, etc.). No glitter, please. 

Required

  • Blush (pink/peach/coral/red - compliment skin tone)

  • Lip color (red) 

  • Eyeliner (brown/black) 

  • Mascara (brown/black) 

  • Eyeshadow (neutrals, i.e. browns, greys, pinks, tans, golds) 

  • Setting Powder or Spray 

Optional

  • Foundation

  • Brow pencil

  • Contour/highlight