TITLE: Bon Appetit

The Bon Appetit performance piece is an authorial dance project where food in the broadest sense of the term is the central topic.

Attributes of specific groceries are sometimes explicitly quoted, but they are also visible through the color and shape metaphors the costumes are using. Dining and means of communication during a meal is portrayed through movement and gestures which asked for simple and sophisticated costumes for the dancers. Those create a nice contrast to the more expressive soloists’ costumes.

Meanwhile the plastic wrappers, primarily non corporal, inspire the  situations where costume parts become narrative when worn by the dancers. It also brought current conversation topics of ecology and overconsumption to the table.

The whole stage and costume design concept prioritized artificial materials, recycled and ready-made plastics.

Even before rehearsals, during creative brainstorm talks with the choreographer many ideas and inspirations have come up. Some costume prototypes have seen its final result only after interacting with the dancers, some functioned as a starting point for further shaping. Some were not used at all since their intense visuality was taking away the attention from the dancers’ bodies and movements.

This deviced method gave life to a project where costume plays an important role in initiating the story, visual form and interaction with dancer’s physicality.