驫舞劇場 MDans2010 陳武康 Part 1: Rehearsal 看排

Costuming in progress... 服裝設計進行中
1.29.10 看排紀錄
Notebook Date: 1.29.2010
Project: costume design
Event: M_DANs 2010
Event Date: 3.05-07 at The Metropolitan 城市舞台
Presented by: Horse Dance Theatre 驫舞劇場
Title: 景
Choreographer: Wu-Kang Chan 陳武康
Dancers: 張堅志���黃懷德���張子凌���蘇威嘉���周書毅

Duet 張堅志 and 張子凌
There is some kind of expectation for me everytime I work with WuKang, one being as creative and random as he is, I look forward each time to our cooperation in dance project. It is the same feeling this time. It's nice to see that he is not dancing in this piece so he can probably stepping away and provide more insight into the choreography.
It's a 5 men dance choreography with each of them get solos, and some duets, then the cannons. The most interesting thing is after watching the rehearsal, I have no idea where to start. My usual routine is each time after watching a new piece in rehearsal, I would have a focal point as to where to start in term of concept in costume design, whether the dance is fluid, mechanical, happy, sad or even just pure body movement with no special meaning. But not this time. I wasn't sure at the time if wukang was still piecing the ideas together or it's intentionally this way. However, we always find interesting things to start with.
Discussion TO BE CONTINUED.....

張堅志 solo

張子凌 solo
The 5 men piece was danced by everyone during the rehearsal and each one has a different styles in term of body movement, there were so many ideas, it's like surfing TV channel watching it. There isn't a core concept as to where the body leads to, but in the mean time, that's what really caught my eyes as it challenge us to think it costume is suppose to cover up or to show more flesh....
so far these are the beginning images of what we think should look like, basically images of sketches like monotones of Olive Green, Reddish Brown, Clays and so forth..

Group interactions can often lead to interesting changes in proportion as body overlapping each other.

蘇威嘉 has always been one of my favorite dancer in the group, but also the most difficult to costume :)

All photos by Jordan K