Forget Me Not
Neo-Classical Dance
Performed by the 2nd year Dance students for the 2013 May Season Dance performance in the Geoff Gibbs Theatre, WAAPA
Classical lines
My costume choices for this piece were heavily inspired by traditional character costumes. The dance captured the divide between upper and lower class in an old, European style village, whilst having no specific plot. The female dancers were placed into two groups, one group representing the upper class, the other representing lower class villagers. The male dancers were all upper class characters.
The colours and fabric were very important for this piece as the costumes needed to have specific movement for each group of dancers. For the upper class costumes, the fabrics I chose all had to be dyed so the blues matched for the male and female costumes. The fabrics needed to enable the costumes to have a floating effect when the dancers moved. The girls in the lower class villager costumes needed longer skirts and the choreographer wanted the skirts to be very full so when the dancers moved into arabesque or grande jeté the skirts would spin out wide or flick up high, creating exaggerated movement with a heavier feel in contrast to the light floating feel of the upperclass costumes.
