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Justice was ill-served on Project Runway this year, but progressive fashion reigned on Chicago’s dance stages.
Justice was ill-served on Project Runway this year, but progressive fashion reigned on Chicago’s dance stages. The Top Ten Costume Designs for Dance in 2010 were:
• Marchland, choreography by Carrie Hanson for the Seldoms, costumes by Lara Miller
• Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking and Flat Out Lies, created by the John Jasperse Company, costumes by Jasperse and Deanna Berg McLean
• Tacit, choreography by Julia Rae Antonick and Jonathan Meyer, costumes by Katrin Schnabl
• Leaves of Grass: A Nude Choral Reading, choreography by Nikki Zaleski, costumes by Mother Nature
• “LinkUp Spring Showcase” featuring Detail of Double Escapement, choreography and costumes by Tif Bullard, and Rehearsals for Becoming Gods, choreography and costumes by Ginger Krebs
• EMPIRE (Art & Politics), devised and directed by Superamas, costumes by Sabine Debonnets, Alix Eynaudi and Odile Hautemulle
• Tyler Tyler, choreography by Yasuko Yokoshi, costumes by Akiko Iwasaki
• Course of Empire—An Excavation on Building a City of the Interior, choreography by Atalee Judy for Breakbone DanceCo., costumes by Judy and Branimira Ivanova
• Sharks Before Drowning, created by Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, costumes off-the-rack Calvin Klein
• Gye Nyame, choreography by Ronald K. Brown for Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, costumes by Harry Detry, Su-Quan Diop, Cheikh Gueye and Amaniyea Payne
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