concepts
By:
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Project:
Costume design concept
I was deeply moved by Lorca's poetry and wanted to manifest his metaphors through fabric.
The jealous wife: constantly knits and reknits her own dress, as if winding up her own knot of nerves.
The bride: "bandages" herself before her wedding in order to cover her emotional wounds.
Her wedding dress is made out oversized prints of cut pomegranates - a visual metaphor for an open wound.
The moon: always blood thirsty - walks around in the dark with glass spheres hanging off its neck.
Some of them are full of blood and some are yet to be filled..
Death: a vagabond, wears a cloak that increases in volume and becomes more complex from top to bottom: beginning with a white, simple canvas at its head and ending with a long trail of rotten fruit entangled in black fabric at its feet.
Original idea:
Irina Constantine Poulos
Dance piece
A thinker in stillness is surrounded by a black void. A source of light hidden directly behind his back camouflages the movement of translucent fabric, which begins to blossom outwards into finally being suspended above the stages entire space. We begin to see ten dancers moving body parts trying to affect the thinker from within the fabric, his cloud of thought, while he remains unchanged into his position. The fabric is to be taking different forms throughout the choreography and dancers will keep trying to reach out to the thinker, trying to change his orientation. He might minimally move towards them, but then return to his original position. One of the figures within his mind, fabric, will eventually be allowed to approach him and her touch will lead him into a conclusion of a delicate duet. The rest of the figures will be wrapped into the fabric and removed upwards from sight.
Sophocles
stage
