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Papers Presented by
• Loyce
Arthur and Clary Salandy “ Trinidad Carnival Costumes”
www.mahoganycarnival.com
• Rolando
de Leon “Foam Costumes for Philippines Carnival”
www.freewebs.com/padat
www.freewebs.com/otsaa
• Treva
Reima “Traditional Carnival Floats from Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ”
• Bill
Brewer from the USA came prepared to do FossShape (thermal felt) and
WonderFlex (thermal plastic) demonstrations.
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Connie Furr Soloman in a Hopi bird from the
Workshop with that she (from Arizona State) and Marianne Custer (U of Tenn)
from USA ran.
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to enlarge)
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There
were 59 countries represented at the Prague Quadrennial this year, and many
of them were part of the parade preparations that lasted for two days on the
13th and 14th of June, culminating with the Parade from the Vistye Vyste down
to Old Town Prague on the 15th of June 2007 . Augustine Bazaale from Uganda
worked next to Rolando De Leon from the Philippines creating foam headpieces.
Lise Klitten from Denmark worked along side Rita Geerts and Tina Mathulessy
from Belgium, Loyce Arthur and Gini Vogel from the USA, and Piret Rumsfeld
from Estonia. Kazue Hatano from Japan brought 25 students and worked with
Canan Goknil from Turkey , and Sunniva Thelestam from Sweden . Another group
of Turkish designers headed by Hakan Dundar created a huge peacock with its
tail feathers fanned out. That was worn bravely by Sue Keisau who nearly blew
away before they cut some holes in the fan tail. From the USA , Bob McDonald
and Abby Wurster helped with the organization and crowd control. Michael
Franklin-White headed up a crew who painted banners with slogans for the
Parade and Clary Salandy from Trinidad/UK came with a full sized blue
elephant to lead on the birds and trained others to create the large scale
costumes. Bill Brewer from the USA came prepared to do FossShape (thermal
felt) and WonderFlex (thermal plastic) demonstrations with generous donations
from Dazians International, Burbank California .
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A
number of sponsors were very generous. Most particularly the Dupont
Corporation, Wilmington Delaware , who donated rolls of Tyvek, Magid Safety
and Glove Company, Chicago Illinois , who donated 600 white overalls, and
Jansport of San Leandro, California who donated 20 backpack frames. We were
also grateful to Cynthia Turnbull and the Department of Theatre at Denison
University for a donation of “Ubu Roi” costumes made out of
Tyvek, and to Maketa Fantova for donating not one, but two sewing machines.
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Magid Glove Girls
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Pulling for PQ thanks to the Dupont Corp.
for the donation of rolls of Tyvek.
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Totem Pole in the Old Town Square.
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Magid Glove Bird
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Magid glove bird
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Scenofest had
planned for 3000 attendees and 6000 signed up for workshops prior to the PQ
event. Between 200 and 300 people helped to create the Birds Parade in some
capacity or other.
The Parade was
almost destroyed by the weather. With all of the steaming hot and humid
weather during the set-up, no one expected a torrential downpour two hours
before our start time. It was not just a downpour of rain, but there were
hailstones about 3/4 of an inch in diameter plummeting down as well. The
central parade coordinator, Jakub Matjka, said that the weather people
expected it to blow over. Everyone at the Vistye Vyste worked on like
Spartans, but many of the parade volunteers stayed at home assuming the
parade would be rained out. The result was a parade that was a good deal
smaller than anticipated. Many unused costumes were laying fallow on the
floor of the Exposition Hall.
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Canadian Thunderbird totem Pole
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 Kazue Hatano from
Japan created several costumes with her students from folded paper
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On
the good side, the rain cooled everything, so when the paraders set out on
the three kilometer hike, it felt very fresh. The walk was stunning along
the palisades that look over the old town of Prague , and the paparazzi
attention was astounding. All of the paraders felt like celebrities, and
even though the number of onlookers was greatly diminished due to the
weather, there were still some crowds who were very appreciative. The
weather was cool and beautiful after all, with an elegant late afternoon
sun coming out about 6pm and staying around until about 9:30pm.
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Augustine Bazaale from Uganda in his bird
outfit.
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Viktoria Strikic from Germany as Goth
Witch Bird
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Parade for Multiculturalism with Japanese
Students
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Students at the end of the Parade in the
Old Town Square
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Prague
Quadrennial
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At the Prague
Quadrennial, the schedules were ever changing, as might be expected for a
huge gathering of 23,000 people. Everyone's communication skills were
strained. The confusion, however, created a bond. Many new friendships
came from asking another what they planned to do next. Cramming
everything into a 10-day period may have made for a stronger daily
attendance, but the chance to enjoy and indulge in some exceptional
experience was not so possible. The events happened at many disparate
locations around the city and transportation was a constant issue.
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Prague Quadrennial
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The Prague
Quadrennial, however flawed, remains the most stimulating time for
people in the costume profession to see everyone else's design work
from around the world, and to talk with costume artists from near and
far. The diversity is still stimulating. One can see costumes for a
“King Lear” played out in the northern lands of Norway in
the snow and ice. There was an “Ubu Roi” done with
primitive carnival intensity and Minstrel show blackface performed in
tents and trucks in Estonia , and a “Medea” played out in a
very African South Africa. It was even interesting that there was a
Macbeth from Germany with almost no costumes at all. The form of the
human body was decorative enough.
The women of
Mexico won the Gold Medal for costume design for multiple shows that
embraced a history of Magical Realism. There were pieces made from
thousands of pins stuck into pincushion headdresses and other very
interesting material choices.
There was a
choice of the judges to issue only one award this year for Costume Design.
The student
exhibit, as usual had some remarkable work, including 200 costumed
maquettes from Russia . The Russian professional exhibit won the Golden
Triga for their themed exhibit about the dreary plays of Chekhov in an
inch or two of water with light bulbs and wire dangerously lluminating
the whole. Huge rubber galoshes were provided for visitors to the
pavilion.
Taiwan put on a
spectacular floor show for their National Day with huge puppet costumes
and some serious drumming. Their exhibit was a birds nest created of
thousands of pieces of caning. They had many costumes that showed
classical costume mixed with modern looks.
There were also
live fashion shows with costumes made on the spur of the moment with
used clothing that had been donated. Doina Levintza from Rumania , who
had an honorable mention for her costume exhibit in 2003 put on a
spectacular runway show of new costumes from old garments.
Some of the best
costume design went relatively unnoticed in the Spanish pavilion. There
were costumes with a political edge and a dangerous look to them that
spoke so eloquently about our troubled world today.
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Future
meeting proposals:
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Copenhagen Denmark . June 10 – 13, 2008. An exploration of period
costume and whether period study is relevant to costume design today. A
trip is planned to the Rosenborg Collection of rare costumes from the
17 th century.
• Scenography
Meeting June 13 - 16, 2008
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Waermland Sweden . June 17 – 20 , 2008. An exploration of costume
and light in the Swedish countryside on midsummer's eve. This will
involve the collecting of objects found in nature to create costumes
for midsummer's eve that have texture that play nicely in light.
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Prague
Workshop Attendees
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Ellen
Strasserelly - 300@hotmail.com -
Victorian College of the Arts Australia / Costume Designer, Student
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Dimitra
Theodoriou - dimitra_theod@yahoo.gr
- Greece / Student
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Emma
Loughridge - emmzie1_l@hotmail.com
- WAAPA Australia / Costume Designer
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Lucía
Silva - socotoro@montevideo.com.uy
- Uruguay / Student
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Emma
Louise O'Donnell - emmalouodonnell@hotmail.com
- Inchicore College of Further Education Ireland / Student
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Viktoria
Strikic - espero_a_noite@yahoo.de
- Germany
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Tanja
Bovin - sds@scenograf.dk - Costume Working
Group Denmark / Set Designer, Costume Designer
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Lone
Ernst - sds@scenograf.dk - Costume Working
Group Denmark / Set Designer, Costume Designer
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Heather
Lockard - hlockard@umd.edu -
University of Maryland United States / Costume Designer, Student, Costume
Construction
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Diana
Khoury - Iamdianakhoury@hotmail.com
- United States / Costume Designer
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Alisa
Sickora Kleckner - aasickora@hotmail.com
- United States / Costume Designer
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Balate
Cecile - balate.c@hotmail.com
- Belgium / Student
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Sévigny
Eve - beautyfull_@hotmail.com
- Canada / Student
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Regilan
Deusamar Barbosa Pereira - regilandeusamar@terra.com.br
- Universidade do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO Brazil / Costume Designer,
Architect
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Miriam
Jurgensen - miriamj@mac.com -
United States / Student
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Alison
Alexander - redbug2086@hotmail.co.uk
- United Kingdom / Student
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S. Sunna
Reynisdóttir - ssr1@hi.is - Czech
Republic / Student
I have some
experience within the field of puppet theater, and would especially like
to attend some puppet theater workshops.
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Chandeze-Avakian
Maida - chandezem@ensad.fr
- ENSAD France / Student
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Michael
Horchman - horchman@ensad.fr -
ENSAD France / Student
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Jean-Baptiste
Hardoin - hardoin@ensad.fr -
ENSAD France / Student
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Pascaline
Van Heddegem - pascaline@belgacom.net
- Belgium / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Teacher
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Efrat
Aravot - efrat_ar@yahoo.com -
Tel-Aviv uni. Israel / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Student
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Emma
Caporn - elcaporn@student.ecu.edu.au
- Australia / Set Designer, Costume Designer
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Clare
Amos - clare.amos@gmail.com
- United Kingdom / Costume Designer, Student
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Juli
Zippel - juli.zippel@gmx.de
- abk maastricht Netherlands / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Student
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Deirdre
Dwyer - deirdredwyer@gmail.com
- Rough Magic Ireland / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Student
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Vania
Cerri - vaniacerri@uol.com.br
- Brazil / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Theatre Theoretician, Teacher
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Desiree
Masucci - dmasucci@rollins.edu
- Rollins College United States / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Actor,
Student, Makeup
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Deborah
Wheatley - drkwangduc1@aol.com -
Univ of Maryland United States / Set Designer, Costume Designer, Student
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Rachel
Kemp - rachelkemp24@hotmail.com
- United Kingdom / Textile designer
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Fleur
Kingsland - f.kingsland@ecu.edu.au
- Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Australia / Theatre
Technician, Teacher
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