USITT 2011!
This year, the national conference of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology is being held in Charlotte, NC, March 9-12. I'll be there, along with quite a few of my colleagues and students. Will you?
I've got an entry in the Tech Expo on the exhibition floor, "Spontaneous Combusting Parasol for Beckett's Happy Days," which i'll talk about here in the blog after the conference, including a full explanation of how we made the parasol ignite. I've also got an entry in Cover the Walls, a design/tech exhibit also on the exhibition floor, on the costume designs and crafts artisanship in Shipwrecked. And, I'll be presenting a poster on the whipping armor that assistant Samantha Greaves and I created for last season's Nicholas Nickleby at Thursday morning's Costume Design and Technology Poster Session.
In terms of our grad students, third-year grad Shanna I. Parks will be exhibiting her work in the Young Designers and Technicians Forum, which will include millinery, parasols, gloves, a classical "plate" tutu and ballet bodice, and her truly incredible historical reproduction, a fin de siecle gown of patterned charmeuse for which she digitally reproduced the print, with some soutache work that must be seen. (I'll be liveblogging the conference, so if you can't go, it doesn't mean you can't see Shanna's display! I'll post pictures.)
Continuing Education student Candy McClernan (who might as well be a grad student, she's taken so many of our classes by now) will be presenting at the Poster Session on the head-hugging Fosshape masks she created for the Carolina Ballet's Pinocchio, complete with "growing" noses. I gather that the Fosshape folks have sent her tons of product samples to give out, so it won't be just the vendors and schools with free swag!
And, program alumna Amy A. Page (MFA '10) will be presenting at the Poster Session as well, a bustle cage she created as part of her creative draping thesis, which perhaps could be best described as a kind of steampunk fire-sprite masquerade costume. Or something awesome, anyhow.
Other than those obligations, i haven't decided what conference sessions and workshops i'll be attending, beyond the Costume Commission meeting and reception (to which all interested attendees are welcome), but i know some of the time i'll be manning the UNC-Chapel Hill booth on the Stage Expo floor, as will many of our grad students throughout the conference, so please stop by and introduce yourselves if you're attending! I love meeting colleagues and readers face to face at these events! See you there?
I've got an entry in the Tech Expo on the exhibition floor, "Spontaneous Combusting Parasol for Beckett's Happy Days," which i'll talk about here in the blog after the conference, including a full explanation of how we made the parasol ignite. I've also got an entry in Cover the Walls, a design/tech exhibit also on the exhibition floor, on the costume designs and crafts artisanship in Shipwrecked. And, I'll be presenting a poster on the whipping armor that assistant Samantha Greaves and I created for last season's Nicholas Nickleby at Thursday morning's Costume Design and Technology Poster Session.
In terms of our grad students, third-year grad Shanna I. Parks will be exhibiting her work in the Young Designers and Technicians Forum, which will include millinery, parasols, gloves, a classical "plate" tutu and ballet bodice, and her truly incredible historical reproduction, a fin de siecle gown of patterned charmeuse for which she digitally reproduced the print, with some soutache work that must be seen. (I'll be liveblogging the conference, so if you can't go, it doesn't mean you can't see Shanna's display! I'll post pictures.)
Continuing Education student Candy McClernan (who might as well be a grad student, she's taken so many of our classes by now) will be presenting at the Poster Session on the head-hugging Fosshape masks she created for the Carolina Ballet's Pinocchio, complete with "growing" noses. I gather that the Fosshape folks have sent her tons of product samples to give out, so it won't be just the vendors and schools with free swag!
And, program alumna Amy A. Page (MFA '10) will be presenting at the Poster Session as well, a bustle cage she created as part of her creative draping thesis, which perhaps could be best described as a kind of steampunk fire-sprite masquerade costume. Or something awesome, anyhow.
Other than those obligations, i haven't decided what conference sessions and workshops i'll be attending, beyond the Costume Commission meeting and reception (to which all interested attendees are welcome), but i know some of the time i'll be manning the UNC-Chapel Hill booth on the Stage Expo floor, as will many of our grad students throughout the conference, so please stop by and introduce yourselves if you're attending! I love meeting colleagues and readers face to face at these events! See you there?