This multi-media runway installation created for a fashion event at the Vibiana Cathedral features nude/body-painted dancers who approach an ‘alter’ of their own projected figures animated with elements of water, fire, earth and wind. The dancers then manically dress themselves in layers of costume, only to illustrate the ridiculousness, futility and fun of masking our natural beauty with anything at all. Finally they undress and roll back offstage - a cycle fully illustrated: we come from the earth and ARE the elements, we contemplate our existence and dress up to play pretend, then we remove all our layers and return to from wherever we came.
The concept was re-envisioned as video artwork for the Marriott Billboard in Downtown Los Angeles.
Director & Choreographer - Mesha Kussman;
Video Design & Production - Dmitry Kmelnitsky and Kalim Chan; Performers: Mesha Kussman, Erica Rice, Whitney Shannon, Mindy Kelly, Adrienne Campbell-Holt