Fall Dance Concert 2009 Bucknell

Co(n)ven(t)
Choreography by Professor Dustyn Martincich

Professor Martincich worked with our resident Toni Morrison expert, Professor Carmen Gillespie, in basing this dance on the Morrison novel, Paradise. Dustyn’s work frequently deals in character and how movement as well as costume can define and express a character. The challenge in dance is to strip back those individual costume character elements so that the dance and movement can speak unfettered. We used a soft rayon print that would move well. We then overdyed the fabric in reds and blues to represent the women from the town and from the “convent” and then added bits of antique crochet lace to differentiate each individual.

Peripheral Visions
Choreography by Professor Er-Dong Hu

For this dance Professor Hu and I wanted to create two distinct looks for the two different sections of the dance. In the first section we wanted volume on the bottom and for the second we wanted the emphasis to be on the upper torso. I created a dance/skirt pattern in which there is a sort of pant interior construction but the exterior reads like a skirt and made it up in silk crepe de chine. For the second look we kept the sienna and umber color palette but added in some brighter golds and teals to create hand painted tunics in silk. We then added in dashes of metallic bronze. The one man in the piece was dressed identically to the women.