Color and Heart

WGI Prelims Performance

admin — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:13:38 +0000

Show Dedication

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:18:19 +0000

If you see our show this year, you’ll hear an introductory narration by various voices. Those voices are the members and staff of The Creek, explaining the dedication of the show to people we know or have known who have influenced us in positive ways. It is the crux of the show, the foundation of why we chose to create this project in this way. The voices come back toward the end with specific dedications to family members and friends of the members’ choosing.

Reprinted here are those opening words. We hope that they bring to mind someone you know. Whether we know those people or not, this show is for them as well.

This is for those who love you, those who encourage you and who support you. This is for someone you have known and lost, or for someone you have met today and will know forever.

This is for those who celebrate that our hearts can be both filled and broken with love for another. And when they leave, what brings them back? Sounds. Feelings. Rhythms. Colors. Emotions. Those things are still yours.

This is for the people that color and shape our lives. We are drawn to them. We celebrate them. This is for them. This is for you.

This is for our friend John. Color and Heart.

Heart

admin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:22:16 +0000

Art by Kenn Goodall

Shake the Dust

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:53:53 +0000

MWM At Work

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:32:25 +0000

Check out this great video of MWM’s murals coming to life on the streets of France.

Fantastic.

Birdsongs

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:13:14 +0000

You may have heard the birds at the beginning of our show. We wanted to enter the performance with calm and disarming sounds that set the mood of positivity, hope, and celebration. It is a mix of five birds that we specifically created for the perfect sound and underlying symbolism.

The bird songs are mix of sparrows (Song Sparrow, Sage Sparrow, and Lark Sparrow) with a Nightingale and Mourning Dove.

The sparrows symbolize hope, community, and humility. Nightingales symbolize inspiration and creativity. Mourning doves symbolize peace and their call gives them their ‘mourning’ name. All of these things are thoughts that either represent how we want to approach our show or how we want to memorialize the memory of John.

Listen to it here:

Birdsong

Uniforms

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:49:35 +0000

We’re excited about our uniform design this year. Here is an action shot at their debut:

Bright highlights on a largely neutral uniform to stand out against a bright floor. The backs are all white for a contrast front to back. Each member has a randomized pattern of colored stripes, so every uniform is ‘individualized’ and has only a couple just like it. And here are a couple process images as we designed the finished product:

Becoming Colorful

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:45:04 +0000

Maya Hayuk

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:34:26 +0000

Great, colorful art by Maya Hayuk. More here.

Chicago

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:59:55 +0000