Cirque School

After a last minute act change, we ended up with an alien beatnik concept.  I have no idea what an alien beatnik actually looks like, but I’m imagining she lives on the West Bank of Mars and looks like a cross between…

…Jean Seberg

…Mary Quaint

…and Peggy Moffitt

…if all three of them came from a race of shiny green aliens.

So yeah.  There’s that.  I’m stocking up on black eyelash glue today.  ;-)

Lucinda and I were luckily on the same page with look concepts from the get-go.  While music was ever evolving, Rex coined us, “The white girls on the soul album cover.”. Or the mixed girl in my case!  More Megan than Betty for you current season ‘Mad Men’ watchers.

While trying to keep certain aspects of the period, our costumes also need to be functional for our routine…and interesting.  I, personally, am no fan of the leotard as Lucinda can tell you about my rant! We drew from both period and contemporary references to give our looks ‘the essence of’.  Can’t wait to try them out!

This is my fourth showcase and as usual, it’s an ever-evolving process.  The concept, music, hair, costume and make up all change twenty two times before the actual day and this time there’s a specific theme.  Eeeek!  My partner Alison has let my imagination run all over the place and she hasn’t even rolled her eyes at me.  For that I sincerely thank her. Although, I think my excitement about $9 glow in the dark “ray guns” really tested her genuine sweet character.  After several slight variations, the current concept for our duo trapeze routine is damsels in distress (from aliens of course).  We’re going to be in futuristic outfits but what they thought the future was in the 60s instead of 2012.  I send Alison probably at least two pictures a day of some form of our overall look.  I don’t want to give it all away but below is a taste of our current inspiration.