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Methods In Costume And Projection Design For Theatre, Jessica Wallace

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

A report detailing multiple practices for theatre design in costumes and projection. It is focused on playscript analysis, the design process, and the final build of the design for production.

Addressing The Lack Of Availability In Diverse Skin Tone Options For Performance Wear, Jessica Batey

GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium

The following research addresses the lack of availability in diverse skin tone options for performance fabric. The project will discuss the struggles people of color face when finding fabrics that accurately match their skin tone and the difficulties in sourcing the materials needed to successfully design a garment. The research gathered will be used to produce a collection of 4 looks using nude mesh fabrics that are readily available to the average consumer. The garments within the collection will be designed to match the skin color of 4 models. The collection’s theme will be based around the 4 cardinal witches …

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …

Addressing The Lack Of Availability In Diverse Skin Tone Options For Performance Fabric, Jessica Batey

Honors College Theses

The following research addresses the lack of availability in diverse skin tone options for performance fabric. The project will discuss the struggles people of color face when finding fabrics that accurately match their skin tone and the difficulties in sourcing the materials needed to successfully design a garment. The research gathered will be used to produce a collection of 4 looks using nude mesh fabrics that are readily available to the average consumer. The garments within the collection will be designed to match the skin color of 4 models. The collection’s theme will be based around the 4 cardinal witches …

Final Experiential Learning Report: The Stratford Festival Archives & Ecuador Women’S Empowerment Trip, Julia Campbell

SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications

To fulfil my SASAH experiential-learning requirement, I worked as an intern at the Stratford Festival Archives in 2017 and travelled to Ecuador as part of a Women’s Empowerment trip in 2018. At the Festival, my colleague and I were responsible for designing the Archives’ first-ever digital catalogue. We researched the provenance of each costume piece, which often included looking through design bibles and conducting informal interviews. We then photographed and wrote detailed descriptions for each costume piece. By the end of the summer, my colleague and I had written over 300 complete entries, laying the groundwork for future interns. My …

Kofifi/Covfefe: How The Costumes Of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa To Western Massachusetts In 2020, Emma Hollows

Masters Theses

This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Emma Hollows to produce a realist production of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company’s musical Sophiatown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in May 2020. Sophiatown follows a household forcibly removed from their homes by the Native Resettlement Act of 1954 amid apartheid in South Africa. The paper discusses her attempts as a costume designer to strike a balance between replicating history and making artistic changes for theatre, while always striving to create believable characters.

Something Rotten! Portia Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Portia sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Show Girls "Musical" Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Show Girls "Musical" sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Puritan Men Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Puritan Men sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Shakespeare Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Shakespeare sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Nigel Bottom Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Nigel Bottom sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Shylock Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Shylock sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! "Eggs" Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! "Eggs" sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Showgirls "Omelette" Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! showgirls "Omelette" sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Brother Jeremiah Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Brother Jeremiah sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Nick Bottom Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Nick Bottom sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Bea Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Bea sketch by Ann Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Lord Clapham Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Lord Clapham sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Puritan Women Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Puritan Women sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Eggs Cracked Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Eggs Cracked sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Something Rotten! Nostradamus Sketch, Anna Grywalski

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Something Rotten! Nostradamus sketch by Anna Grywalski, Costume Designer

Costume Design For Qui Nguyen’S She Kills Monsters, Tanner Neal Mcalpin

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis details the process of creating costume designs and implementing them in the production of She Kills Monsters which was produced at the University of Arkansas Black Box Theatre in the Fall of 2018. Throughout this thesis I will explain how the costumes went from initial research and conversations with the director to the final products on the stage. The account of this includes an analysis of the script, collages of photos used for inspiration, portrait gallery, research, rough sketches, renderings with fabric swatches, production photos, and my evaluation of the process as a whole.

Costume Design For "Life Is A Dream" By Pedro Calderon De La Barca, Kelsey Looney

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis explains the process used to create and implement the costume design for the production of Life is a Dream produced at the University of Arkansas in the spring of 2018. In this thesis I will detail the process of moving from research, to renderings, to finished costumes. This design process includes a script analysis, inspiration collages, portrait gallery, sketches, renderings, production photographs, and an assessment of the success of the process overall.

Dance Of Exile: The Sakharoffs’ Visual Performances In Montevideo (1935–1948), Pablo Munoz Ponzo

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores the life-work chronology of the dancers and choreographers Clotilde von Derp (whose surname then was Sakharoff) and Alexander Sakharoff, who were exiled in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1941 and 1948. During their stay in the Rio de la Plata region, the Sakharoffs stirred up the art scene by performing extremely detailed dances with great attention to costume design. This thesis begins with a review of the reception of the dancers’ performances by the artistic and cultural circles in Montevideo, arguing that the Sakharoffs’ “queer” trajectory resonated with the Uruguayan artistic community, influencing the creation …

Costume Design For Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Melissa Rooney

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis explains the process used to create the costume design for the production of Macbeth produced at the University of Arkansas Global Campus Theatre in the Spring of 2019. Throughout this thesis, I will explain the process by which the costumes went from initial research ideas to sketches and colored renderings and finally to fully realized three dimensional costumes. The design process included in this thesis includes an analysis of the play, inspirational collage, portrait gallery, research, renderings, production images, and an evaluation of the overall process.

Of The Crickets, Kathryn Lien

Theses and Dissertations

Of the Crickets imagines the overlapping worlds of ethical ecological solutions to climate changed sustenance and the potential for collective excellence in female exclusive environments. Using garments, furniture, site-specific installation and directed performance, the project harnesses social and material sensitivity to mine solutions for idealized living.

"Hippie Acid Freak Drag Queens:" Situating The Cockettes Within An Art Historical Context, Scott Dow

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis situates the Cockettes – a performance group rarely referenced in art historical discourse - within Bay Area performance art, second-wave feminist art, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Contextualizing the Cockettes within their contemporary art movements provides a new understanding of the group and emphasizes their significance to art history.

Into The Woods - Cinderella At Ball Illustration, David Cabral

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Into the Woods - Cinderella at Ball illustration by David Cabral

February 27, 2017

Risd Cabaret 1987-2000 Retrospective Program, Agnieszka Taborska, Bill Newkirk, Risd Archives

RISD Cabaret 1987-2000 Retrospective

No abstract provided.

Risd Cabaret 1987-2000 Retrospective Poster, Agnieszka Taborska, Bill Newkirk, Risd Archives

RISD Cabaret 1987-2000 Retrospective

No abstract provided.