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Revel’s “Bolero” is one of the most recognized pieces of orchestral music. Choreographer, Duane Cyrus asked me to design the costumes for his dancers from the University of Arizona’s School of Dance in a performance with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (Conducted by Maestro Jose Luis Gomez) of Revel’s iconic orcehstration. I was excited to create a new vision for Revel’s timeless masterpiece, Inspired by the bold, graphic aesthetics of Martha Graham. I imagined the dancers as an ancient culture captured in a ritual of movement.
Photos by Grace Trejo, Arizona Daily Star and Chris Coates
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"EMBARQUED" made it’s New York City premier at BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 2022. It is the brainchild of Jerome Robbins Award winning choreographer, Stefanie Batten Bland for her dance ensemble COMPANY SBB. This dance piece is an abstract exploration of The African American Freedom Trail on Martha's Vineyard... the Middle Passage...the Transatlantic Slave Trade...human migrations... displaced bodies... searching and surviving. Stefanie charged me with designing convertible costumes fashioned as ship sails that the dancers use to create a sea vessel. The sails are dismounted from the ship’s mast and worn as cloaks. Then the ships rigging become flag poles as their robes transform into banners manipulated in a ceremonial gesture. Photos by Maria Baranova @photo_by_baranova
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Nominated for a 2021 BESSIE AWARD for Outstanding Visual Design in Costume Design… KOLONIAL is a filmed dance performance developed as a commission from Mikhail Baryshnikov. Baryshnikov Arts Center began this initiative aimed to encourage dance makers, musicians and other artists to continue working during the Covid 19 pandemic. KOLONIAL is the brainchild of Choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland. Kolonial interrogates suppressed identity though physical posturing and gesture in transparent COVID cages.
Photos- Company SBB, JC Dhien, Conrad Quesen, Maria Baranova-Suzuki
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As part of Duke Performances’ virtual fall season, Choreographer, Stefanie Batten Bland’s dance film CURRENT explores a new work created for camera. Working from upstate NY, through river tributaries, Batten Bland marshals an intimate configuration of her company to explore underlining historical and present day directional up/ downstate tensions in the region during the pandemic. CURRENT presented a unique design opportunity to create costumes that would be filmed in various biospheres. The costumes had to work aesthetically on land and in the water.
Photos by Company SBB
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Choreographer, Duane Cyrus’s Dance Theater piece “Colony Of Desire” was developed as part of Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works performance series.
Photos by Taylor Jones courtesy of Charlotte Ballet.
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Costume Design- Shane Ballard
Set Design- Jason Simms
Photos- Anna Jekel
Unicorn Theater- Berkshire Theater Group.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts 2018
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Stefanie Batten Bland’s dance theatre piece dives deep into core personal life thematics. With whom does society deem it appropriate to be intimate? To share our lives with? Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the work pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life. Set around a transformative dinner setting, seven dance-theatre artists excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table. LaMama Experimental Theater Club 2019.
Costumes Designed by Shane Ballard
Photos by Carlos Cardona.
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Rutgers Theater Company's production of MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins controversial melodrama. Set on the Terrebonne plantation in Louisiana in the decade before the Civil War, the play explores issues of race, identity and the power of theatricality. Photos by Matt Pilsner
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Costume Concept Illustration- THE SLEEPING BEAUTY- Pacific Northwest Ballet
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Costumes Designed by Paul Tazewell
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: Angela Sterling, Lindsay Sterling and Beth Crook
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Costume Concept Illustration- THE PIANO LESSON
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Directed by Malcolm Washington
Costumes Designed by Francine Tanchuck
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: Netflix.
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Costume Concept Illustration- THE INSTIGATORS
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Directed by Doug Liman
Costumes Designed by Charlese Antoinette
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: Apple TV
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Costume Concept Illustration- THE COLOR PURPLE
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Directed by Blitz Bazawule
Costumes Designed by Francine Tanchuck
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Pictures,Warner Brothers
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
Costumes Designed by Paul Tazewell
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: United Artists Releasing/Universal Pictures.
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Costumes Designed by Clint Ramos
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos: United Artists Releasing/Universal Pictures.
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Costumes Designed by Paul Tazewell
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
Photos by Glen Wilson/Focus Features
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Costumes designed by Paul Tazewell
Directed by Kenny Leon
Illustrated by Shane Ballard
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