Tara's Cutting Portfolio

Here are some selections of cutting work have done, mainly on other people's shows. Recently I've only cut shows of my own, so I don't have photos of more recent work.

Me, draping a mock-up of the stretchable dance costumes for Behind The Painted Grin, made out of non-stretchable material, 1985. The PDT Choreographer, Liz Fuentes Rosner, wanted dance unitards made out of cheap non-stretch silk satin to facilitate slides on a Marly dance floor, and asked me to design a pattern that could stretch without tearing. The silk is gathered onto 1/4" elastic at the side, arm and leg/crotch seams.

Design by Madeline Keeling for a break-away evening dress for Ring Round the Moon, 1984, CSU Fresno.

The break-away dress I cut, in action, getting "torn" on stage.

Design by Madelyn Keeling for CSU Fresno's Ring Round the Moon, 1984. Lady India's between the leg harem skirt.

The actual costume, which I cut.

Design by C.Neil Vipperman for Six Characters in Search of an Author, University of Georgia, 1986.

The costume as cut and sewn by me.

C. Neil Vipperman, in a costume designed by Sylvia Hillyard for The Pirates of Penzance, UGA, 1996. Costume cut and sewn by me.

Costume designed by Sylvia Hillyard for The Pirates of Penzance, UGA, 1996. Costume cut and sewn by me.

Costumes designed by ? for UGA's A Doll's House, 1985, cut by me. 

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