Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Mark Harootian, a wonderfully talented dancer and choreographer from Festival Ballet Providence. He asked me to create the costumes for a piece he was developing for Festival's "Up Close On Hope" production (which runs through February)
His dance is set to the music of Shen Qi's erhu (Chinese violin) and it brings to life a love story between the wind and a lotus flower. Together we collaborated to design the costumes for the "Lotus" character and two "Water" dancers in the piece.
Last Friday night we saw it all come together at the rehearsal.... it was so exciting to see his dance and the costumes working together!
"Up Close on Hope" is performed at Festival Ballet's dance studio in a small space so you are right up with the dancers. Quite an experience to be so close... if you love Ballet this is a must see!
what a wonderful collaboration cynthia and how the costumes portray exactly that, beautiful! , how i love the ballet!
ReplyDeleteelegance and femme with an asian twist..im not sure what made it look asian, is the fan?..the clothing harmonizes well with the theme and i wonder if my green juicy couture cargo would fit well in this kind of presentation
ReplyDeletethis looks like a photo shoot of the america's next top model cycle 13. very nice prayer request!!!
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