Universal Ballet Costume, Korea

I've just completed a commission for knitted costume from Jenny Irwin for Graeme Murphy's version of the ballet Giselle, for Universal Ballet in Seoul, Korea, which opens in June.    A labour of pleating, braiding, knotting, knitting, each piece designed and handmade on the knitting machine in linen and cotton fibre blends.

Bangarra Costume Images

Bangarra Dance is now in full tour in Australia and they've posted an album of production images on their facebook page.  There are some amazing images there of the costume segment I created.

Patyegarang Review

A review in Sydney Morning Herald of Bangarra Dance's Patyegarang performance, where the costume is mentioned as a "....delight, especially the ones with lattice backs and elegant drapery".

Bangarra Dance Costume

Bangarra Dance Company's performance Patyegarang has kicked off this week at the Sydney Opera House.  This is another wonderful commission from Jennifer Irwin, Costume Designer for Bangarra; who is great to work with as she gives me free reign with the design of the pieces.  I can't wait to see this beautiful performance when I'm in Sydney next week.  

BANGARRA DANCE COSTUME

Just completed a costume commission for The Bangarra Dance Theatre's next performance 'Patyagarang', opening at Sydney Opera House 13 June, followed by a countrywide tour.

New Costume Commission

Just completed another exciting costume commission for Jenny Irwin for a new Bangarra Dance Theatre production coming up, called Terrain. The costume design is to reflect 'scarification of the land'. Drawing of Costume Brief by Jenny Irwin

The Australian Ballet

Infinity is a the new performance by the Australian Ballet, a trinity collaboration with contemporary dance companies; Bangarra Dance, Sydney Dance and Chunky Move . I was delighted when Costume Designer, Jenny Irwin invited me to design 9 costumes for the Bangarra performance. I've worked for Jenny before, creating a costume on the Bangarra Dance 'Bush' performance, so this time it was great to get a complete costume segment for the 'dancing fish' in Inifinity.

The performance was absolutely AMAZING, this is such an exciting ballet, it shouldn't be missed. My costumes are quite dimly lit on stage, so I couldn't see a lot of the detail work in the dresses, but 2 of the dancers did wear them for the curtain call, which was a bit of buzz for me.

Here are images of my costume on stage:



and here are images of costume in the studio:







Inspiration for the "fish" - found on one of the many isolated beach walks in Hawkes Bay.



Backstage Images of the Costume fittings.

Bangarra Dance

Costume created for Designer Jenny Irwin for the Bangarra Dance Company ; 'hot wind dress' for 'Clan' performance in 2005. These images were part of the presentation I made during the artists floor talk on 12 February 2010.