Love Bug

 

'Lovebug' dance by FRWRD Dance Company is performing at Gretna Theatre, PA today and the costumes are phenomenal I wish I could see it. Lauren Tait, the creator and director of Love Bug,”It depicts nine different types of bugs through dance and costumes and sets. A giant suspended cocoon and a vast spider web. The company is an adult company, though this show is geared towards young audiences, but hopefully sophisticated enough for adults to want to watch without their kids as well.

'LOVEBUG will transport viewers into the hungry bullfrog’s fly-filled bog, a bustling beehive, the chrysalis of the contemplative caterpillar, and the web of the bella tarantella, just to name a few.  Written and directed by Lauren Tait, LOVEBUG merges intricate movement, playful original poetry, and elaborate costumes and props—from a life-sized suspended cocoon to a giant spiderweb–to create an evocative and visually compelling experience with the aim to spark wonder and discovery in audiences young and old.' 

 

Freyja Crow

 

Freyja Crow is a young multi discipline artist who has a distinct style and often works on masks and costumes, here are some of her 'Sprout' series.

Alison Brown

 

It has been the Edinburgh Children's Festival recently and these fabulous costumes were created by Alison Brown for 'Tongue Twister' created by Greg Sinclair.

Olana Light

 

Lumbering in a fantastic carapace of beach stones, this is Olana Light exploring issues of identity and belonging with her winning entry Searching for a Place to Belong for the Little Forest Open Competition 2022.

Below are some of her works made for the 'Searching for a Place to Belong' project.

Bobby Becker

Digitally enhanced but a fantastic concept from Nashville based photographer Bobby Becker.

Tracy Widdess

A collaboration focusing on fictional birds from children's books, led to the bird masks above being created by 'brutal knitter' Tracy Widdess and costumes by 'Ant' Babcia Mrówki. Photography is by Tomasz Biskup and Paulina Kania. Art direction, custom-made typography and 3D objects are by Piotr Buczkowski 

Alaya

 

        








Love this video posted by Alaya with its fantastical costumes creating bizarre movement and spectacle.

Yoni Lefevre

Yoni Lefevre has through an incredible project challenged our view of grandparents by interpreting them through their grandchildren's eyes and creating costumes based on this vision.
Yoni visited a primary school and asked the pupils to draw their grandparents. She then selected the drawings =of four children aged 10 - 11 years.  Yoni Lefevre explains that unlike the majority of the population, children do not see their grandparents as gray and "dried", but as a happy, full of life, people with passions, who make life colorful.

Will R. Barnes

I have been exploring the digitised images of the New York Public Library thanks to my friend Fiona.
My initial search yielded these fantastic fish costumes of 1910 designed by Will R. Barnes.

Will. R Barnes ( 1851-1939) was an Australian costume designer who emigrated to American the 1890's he was a cartoonist like his father and an accomplished watercolourist.

Emily Speed

Emily Speed wearing her costume sculpture constructed from waste cardboard, wood and plastic as a carapace. 

"Inhabitant was made during Urban Interventions, an exchange residency based in Linz between European Capital of Culture cities. Nominated for the residency by Liverpool Biennial, I worked at Salzamt Atelierhaus from July to September 2009.
A sculpture made and worn around Linz, Austria, Inhabitant is about trying to find your own place or identity in a city and the representation of psychological space. The final form was influenced by the time spent in Linz and took on some characteristics of the architecture there. The materials in the work - cardboard, wood and plastics - were all previously discarded and these made fragile, temporary building blocks. Worn, or inhabited, this work sits somewhere between a garment and a sculpture. It is like a shell or façade, in which I, although concealed safely inside, remain vulnerable, without the ability to see and encumbered by my own creation." Emily Speed 

Bryony Birkbeck

So happy to discover the wonderful bizarre costumes of Bryony Birkbeck. as well as her set designs and illustrations, everything Bryony does is fun and engaging and makes you want to see more.

Yuliya Sobotyuk

A series of masks made by Yuliya Sobotyuk for Barefoot and Half Naked video and posters.
Posters and masks were designed and hand-crafted for the "Barefoot, halfnaked" video installation.
Each character in the video represents different emotion that we undergo while growing up.
The project is devoted to the young stage of our life. Yuliya Sobotyuk

ECA Fashion Show: 3rd Year Costume for Dance

This is my first post in a series about ECA fashion show, which I attended last night.The third year students have been working on costumes for dance, inspired by Louise Bourgeois and in particular an exhibition of her work at the Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
The costume students collaborated with Dance students for Edinburgh College and devised performance pieces. The costumes pictured are by Holly Prescott and Jenni Thomson.
It was great to see the wonderful costumes that had been designed come to life with such creative expression a wonderful example of how collaboration between different areas of study can be really enhancing to a project.

Rachel Perry Welty

Rachel Perry Welty takes tiny mundane throw away scraps of daily life; receipts, twist ties, fruit stickers and collects them turning them into costume, performance and sculpture and makes the invisible flotsam of daily life into something very powerful and often surprisingly beautiful.