It's always an interesting task to define a look for a new piece. Since most of us don't have the Opera's budget to have full sets built and live animals on stage, each new work poses the challenge of selecting a set of objects or making a backdrop that helps define the world in which the dance takes place. Last year we had fun ripping up and knotting together our old curtains (Scarlett O'Hara eat your heart out) to create a web which we suspended as a backdrop for
ties that bound, studies. For
Per-Verses and
Drained, a friend built us sturdy wooden cubes that just happen to double as storage units at home.
Today we ordered part of the set for our newest work
Fallout, which is a take on the nuclear family and fear. The piece is slated to premiere in Singapore next January, so the set not only has to perform on stage, but also has to fit in a suitcase and stay under airlines' ever shrinking weight limits. Amazon came through with flying colors. Now if we could just find the right armchair at the IKEA in Singapore...
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