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Find Me in Here. Costume talk.

The previous Find Me in Here post shows Emily's thought process in sketches. Last week when I had the dancers rehearse in skirts, we all agreed they were a bad idea --but the problem was how they obscured the legs rather than their inherent skirt-ness. Emily probably never saw the girls in long dresses, I just asked them to wear whatever they had, but still it was good to confirm what would have been a poor direction to go.

Instead, Emily has clearly been working with the idea of tent (waistless) dresses for a while and this time suggested a design connected more directly to our focus on process. She'll create basic muslin tent dresses for the girls to wear in rehearsal and at the parks when we perform this summer. These are meant to be subjected to normal wear and tear, the signs of which Emily will then use to inform her final designs that are unique for each dancer.

Practical considerations such as quick turn-around between final the park performance and the concert performance (aug 29-30) and the fact that dancers aren't exactly a messy bunch, led to Emily creating some preliminary designs to work from in the end --which we'll keep playing with for a while.

I love this design concept because it addresses the individuality of each dancer within a "uniform" or "group" style and, more importantly, because it relates directly to my creative methodology. Yay Emily!

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