http://barbarakilpatrick.com Featuring the Work of Barbara Kilpatrick Sat, 10 Dec 2016 17:42:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/everything-you-see/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/everything-you-see/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:13:11 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=716 Everything You See is a site-adaptive work designed for the architecture of St Mark’s Church and created by dancer/choreographer Vicky Shick, sound designer/composer Elise Kermani, and myself. As with many of the sets I have designed throughout my collaboration with Shick and Kermani, Everything You See conceives of standard theatrical properties of curtains and costumes as art objects. The stage is bisected with industrial fiberglass mesh, either draped and hung from a portable support system, or suspended from the overhead grid. The semi-transparent screen encourages a constant oscillation of the audience’s gaze between foreground and background, not unlike the manual focus in a camera’s lens. The dancers are wearing “bespoke” costumes, designed specifically for each individual’s movement, work and persona. Made from a combination of found textiles, hand-sewn pieces and various trimmings, both industrial and domestic, the costumes similarly alternate between attention grabbing and disappearing into the everyday. Dancers: Jodi Bender, Donna Costello, Olsi Gjeci, Lily Gold, Laurel Jenkins, Jon Kinzel, Marilyn Maywald-Yahel, Heather Olson, Wendy Perron, and Vicky Shick. Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, New York, NY April 2013 Lighting Design: Carol Mullins APAP / Joyce Theater, New York, NY January 2014 American Dance Institute, Rockville, MD September 2014 Everything You See was nominated for a “BESSIE” a New York Dance and Performance Award, for “Outstanding Production” in 2013. (photographs 1, 3, 4, 5 by Elyssa Goodman; photograph 2 by Anjola Toro)]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/everything-you-see/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/another-spell/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/another-spell/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:07:35 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=710 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/another-spell/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/articulated-figures-in-five-movements/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/articulated-figures-in-five-movements/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:01:56 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=707 Waltz of the Flowers) Wallpaper: Digital photograph on canvas. 36” x 60” Costume: Boning, acrylic polymer, milliner’s mesh, assorted hardware, thread, steel armature. Total: 58” x 60” x 32”. 2016. 5) “…yearning, and yet…” Wallpaper: Acrylic polymer on handmade cotton paper, 47” x 47” Costume: Found cotton doilies, cotton thread, assorted hardware, steel armature. Total: 42” x 28” x 24”. 2013.]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/articulated-figures-in-five-movements/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/pathetique-miniatures-in-detail/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/pathetique-miniatures-in-detail/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:53:43 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=704 This work, a collaboration between dancer/choreographer Vicky Shick, sound designer/composer Elise Kermani and myself, was designed for the West End Theater and performed again at the 92nd Street Y / Harkness Dance Festival.   The costumes, crafted of industrial materials, produce sound when in motion. When miked these sounds become elements in a larger, layered aural score. In this way the costume is both an object and a musical instrument “played” by the articulation of the dancer’s movement. West End Theater “Soaking WET” Series, New York, NY April 2014 92nd Street Y / Harkness Dance Festival, New York, NY March 2015 Lighting Design: Jay Ryan Dancers: Olsi Gjeci, Marilyn Maywald-Yahel, Omagbitse Omagbemi and Vicky Shick “It’s not just Ms. Shick who is perfect. “Pathétique” is her seventh collaboration* with the costume designer Barbara Kilpatrick and the sound designer Elise Kermani. This is one of the most reliably beguiling teams in dance. That consistency might seem to preclude surprise — each work is quite similar to the others — yet it is nevertheless surprising how these three, every time, find or make fresh magic.” —Brian Seibert, The New York Times * [correction: thirteenth collaboration] (photographs: Yi-Chun Wu)]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/pathetique-miniatures-in-detail/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/making-ends-meet/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/making-ends-meet/#respond Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:41:20 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=630 Making Ends Meet is an installation created for the 2015 exhibition “Shifting Paradigms: The New Arts Program and Kutztown University”.  The work consists of two costumes, two screens and a wall composition of five framed gelatin silver photographs and ink-jet prints.  Because the New Arts Program provided collaborative experiences for students and visiting artists, I invited Amanda Seanor, a senior art student whom I mentored throughout 2015, to contribute to the work by weaving together strands from each costume during the installation, eventually connecting the two figures as the exhibition came to an end.  This activation of the installation invoked the spirit of choreography, as the two figures interacted with each other and ultimately met. Materials: Found synthetic tape, plaster, steel hoops, hola-hoops assorted hardware, thread, steel armatures, steel garment racks. Wall: Printing out paper print, digital ink-jet prints, wooden shelf. Catalog (photographs: Daniel Region and Amanda Seanor)]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/featured-work/making-ends-meet/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/bearskin/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/bearskin/#respond Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:55:01 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=575 Bearskin is a live performance for people and puppets, adapted from the fairy tale Peau d’ours by the seventeenth century French noblewoman Henriette-Julie de Murat. Direction and visual presentation by Barbara Kilpatrick. Commissioned by FIAF (French Institute/Alliance Française) for the Young Audiences Program, NY, NY 2012. The movement artists are Laurel Tentindo and Luis de Robles Tentindo, with projection design by Stefanie Koseff and narration by James Occhino. View the video (photographs: Jacqueline Chambord and Gabriel de Urioste)  ]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/bearskin/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/not-entirely-herself/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/not-entirely-herself/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:01:13 +0000 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/?p=548 Not Entirely Herself is a collaboration between Vicky Shick (choreography) and myself (set and costume.)  The work was presented at The Kitchen, New York City in 2011, where it was performed by Marilyn Maywald, Jimena Paz and Maggie Thom, with a coda by Neil Greenberg and Vicky Shick.  The sound design is by Elise Kermani, and the lighting is by Chloë Z. Brown. Photos: © Paula Court]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/not-entirely-herself/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/repair/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/repair/#respond Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:05:12 +0000 http://dev.bmartinstudio.com/bk/?p=256 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/repair/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/cameraroom/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/cameraroom/#respond Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:30:49 +0000 http://dev.bmartinstudio.com/bk/?p=224 View the video for Camera/Room]]> http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/cameraroom/feed/ 0 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/phrase-book/ http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/phrase-book/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:14:50 +0000 http://dev.bmartinstudio.com/bk/?p=247 http://barbarakilpatrick.com/work/phrase-book/feed/ 0