Canadian Duo Creates Life-Size Origami Costumes for Ballet Dancers

Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin joined forces in January 2018 to combine their imaginations in a creative collaboration. The end result, PLI.Ē Project, fuses Dez’s abilities as a motion photographer with Loctin’s experience in paper artwork and showcases dancers across the globe sporting hand-folded paper costumes. Loctin specifically designed each dress’s shape and color palette into the dancer who would be wearing it, and Dez worked to situate her models in iconic surroundings from the streets of New York City into the Louvre Museum in Paris. Loctin’s paper creations vary from resembling traditional ballet tutus to folded experimental contours.

Dez shares that the job came together in 2 stages: first as a studio shoot professional ballet dancers wearing Loctin’s creations, and afterward as a worldwide undertaking photographing dancers and costumes outside.

 

“Paper can be a delicate material to work with, and that is precisely the reason why we decided to make the impossible, possible. Whichever element we would be confronted with, water (rain), wind, we desired to show that we are limitless.”

You can view more from Loctin on Instagram and out of Dez on Instagram.

H/T fubiz

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Ballet Dancers Pose Nude on New York City High Vantage Points

Hong Kong Ballet Just Unveiled its Edgy and Visually Striking Seasonal Campaign

Hong Kong Ballet has unveiled its edgy, bizarre, visually magnificent seasonal effort yet — nailing new artistic director Septime Webre’s wildly fresh vision.

Conceived and gorgeously art directed in Hong Kong by DC-based creative agency Design Army, the campaign stars the classical dancers in the most anything-but-typical (or subtle!) Visuals — striking mad airborne contortions in surreal settings (from balancing dim sum pots on boats to donning Mad Men retro) — all backdropped by Hong Kong landmarks newly reimagined.

In the middle of the work is the photography, shot at Hong Kong with dancers from the troupe. “For the brand images, we created a visually stunning language speaking into the vibrancy and energy of this art form, the dancers, and the city itself. We designed a lush, rich world of fantasy through fashion, color, and typography — establishing a recognizable and dynamic new speech.”

Fierce, graceful and exploding with China rich reddish — there is nothing conservative about this work. Even the ballerina buns mimic the Hong Kong skyline within this eye-popping design-meets-dance campaign.

Read more at designarmy.com

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