Designer Elizabeth Gadsby loves to push boundaries in her work.
Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela has an unusual problem: his dancers are covered in dissolved plastic pellets, and they won’t come off.It’s an unintended side effect of experiments by Elizabeth Gadsby, one of Australia’s most in-demand set designers. The two are collaborating for the first time inElizabeth Gadsby, left, in discussion with Rafael Bonachela and associate designer Emma White during rehearsals.
“It is to do with that reflective practice of reflecting on a philosophical idea and seeing how that might manifest in life or in the world around you,” says Gadsby. But where to get clouds? “You can’t use dry ice with dancers because it makes the floor wet,” she explains.
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