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Of course, when the dancers where touring, costumes had to follow, which meant the setting up of rather complex logistics.

"For a show including the entire troupe, at least ten costume trunks were needed for ten dances and 160 costumes, without mentioning the accessories' trunk.
The trunks were shipped as cargo.

In 1983, as we couldn't fit the costume trunks in the Turkish bus' baggage compartment, we had to leave them at the airport and the dancers ended up travelling with the costumes only, carrying them in garment bags. The trunks should have waited for us at the airport, but they were flown back home empty before the dancers themselves came back. They were reduced to bunching up their costumes into the same garment bags in order to bring them back.

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Costume Accessories