That was appropriately cheeky. At the Louisville Ballet, Joseph Nygren Cox is the production's prima mama. A recent rehearsal found him underneath a stylized creature only slightly smaller than North Dakota. Not the sort of thing they teach you in ballet class. The huge costume is an exercise in sensory deprivation.
Dancers have to be willing to trust each other enough to be in the right spots.
After those costumes are fitted before a performance, they stay on until the very end. We bow in them. And during a break, it's vital to relax. Or try to. The less I move, the less hot it gets.