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Selected Design Projects
2008
EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION
The Rape of the Sabine Women
Live Musical Performance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA

DAVID MICHALEK
Goldenly
Video installation commission from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Clytemnestra
Reconstruction of 1958 Graham work
Tour of Greece, Cyprus, Kennedy Center, Washington DC

THIRD RAIL PROJECTS
Vanishing Point
Danspace Project at St.Mark’s Church, New York
Choreography: Zach Morris and Tom Pearson
2008 Bessie Award winner
KAROLE ARMITAGE and GOTHAM CHAMBER OPERA
Ariadne Unhinged
Assistant Costume Designer
ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE
Summer of Love
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Assistant Costume Designer
RIOULT
The Fleeting World
Choreography: Pascal Rioult
MARY SEIDMAN AND DANCERS
WeDogs
MAMA at LaMama
La Mama Etc, New York
2007
DAVID MICHALEK
Slow Dancing
Outdoor Video installation
Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center, NYC, Venice Biennial 2008, Jacob’s Pillow,
2008 Bessie Award winner

CENTRE FOR FASHION, BODIES, AND MATERIAL CULTURES
LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION/ CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Visiting Fellow

THIRD RAIL PROJECTS
Stranger on Tong Chong Street
Swire Island East Urban Dance Festival, Hong Kong
Choreogrpahy: Zach Morris and Tom Pearson
Co-designer with Zach Morris
LAFA AND ARTISTS, Taiwan
37 Arts
Artistic directors Fang Yi Sheu, Bulareyaung
ALEXANRA BELLER/DANCES
Us
premiered at Here Arts Center
DUSAN TYNEK DANCE THEATER
Fleur de Lis,
Choreography: Dusan Tynek
PHILADANCO
Light Lies
Choreography: Elisa Monte
KEELY GARFIELD
Line and Sink Her
Danspace Project at St.Mark’s Church, New York
JUGGERNAUT THEATRE COMPANY
Model - new play by Cathy Caplan
Mabou Mines Residency
360 DANCE
Reconstruction of Jane Dudley’s Time is Money
Forestillinger I Baerum Kulturhus, Oslo, Norway
ERICA DANKMEYER
The thought Behind/Still the Line
Danspace Project at St.Mark’s Church, New York
2006
EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION
The Rape of the Sabine Women
70 minute video Shot on location in Greece and Berlin
Exhibitions include: Thessaloniki Film Festival, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, San Francisco MoMA, Louisiana Museum, Denmark,
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
ANDREA HAENGGI/AMDaT
Friction
White Oak Residency, Dance Theater Workshop, NY
Escalator
Site-specific work commissioned by World Financial Center
DUSAN TYENK DANCE THEATRE
Kosile
Scenes
Dance Theater Workshop, New York
PRINCETON ATELIER
arts studio program at Princeton University, director Toni Morrison
The Women Return, with Maria Tucci, Allegra Kent, Daniel Mendelsohn
NAI NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
Isle of Dunes
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
KEELY GARFIELD
Hope and Anchor
Sitelines Festival, New York
2005
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Head Costumer
Reconstruction of Deaths and Entrances (with Oscar de la Renta), Primitive Mysteries,
Suenos (choreographer Martha Clarke)
NOEMIE LAFRANCE/ SENS PRODUCTION
Agora
Site-specific work at the McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Designed and styled fashion shoot with artist Eve Sussman based on video Rape of the Sabine Women
Feb. 2005 Fashion Issue

ELISA MONTE DANCE
Woman’s Way
Joyce Theater, New York
2004
EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION
89 Seconds at Alcazar - 2004 video installation based on Velazquez' "Las Meninas"
Exhibitions include: Whitney Biennial 2004, Museum of Modern Art, New York. the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid,
Meseu Picasso, Barcelona, and The National Gallery, London

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Head Costumer
Reconstruction of Circe, the Owl and the Pussycat (with Andrea LeonTalley), Herodiade

PRINCETON ATELIER
arts studio program at Princeton University, director Toni Morrison
The Trojan Women with Maria Tucci, Allegra Kent, Daniel Mendelsohn
NAI NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY
Dragons on the Wall
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
2003
ANDREA HAENGGI/AMDaT
Under Whose Control
Tseh Festival, Moscow, Tanztheater Wasserwerk Zurich, Sitelines Festival NY
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Head Costumer
Reconstruction of Phaedra
TONI DOVE
Spectropia
interactive feature film premiered at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, NY, 2006
ELISA MONTE DANCE
Light Lies
Premiered at Centre Pompidou, Paris
2002
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATER
Blue Sky Transmission – A Tibetan book of the Dead
director Raymond Bobgan, composer Halim el-Dabh
PRINCETON ATELIER - arts studio program at Princeton University, director Toni Morrison
Ish-scoodah
with choreographer Aleta Hayes and poet Yusef Komunyakaa
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Baseline, choreographer Robert Battle
Commissioned for the Juilliard Dance Division's 50th anniversary
2001
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Guest Critic and Speaker, Apparel Design Department
PHILADANCO
Bitches’ Brew
choreographer Elisa Monte
ELISA MONTE DANCE
Lost Things
Joyce Theater, New York
KAVOTUSTEN (Face To)
Exhibition at Poselli House, Rauma, Finland
2000
ELISA MONTE DANCE
Shattered
Joyce Theater, New York
1999
EL RETABLO EMBRUJADO
by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, directed by Iona Weissberg
Festival del Centro Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico, Teatro Jimenez Rueda, Mexico City
ELISA MONTE DANCE
Day’s Residue
Joyce Theater, New York
NEW YORK STATE CRAFTS ALLIANCE
grant for fiber art
KAUKANA ON LAHELLA / FAR IS NEAR
Exhibition at Galleria Into, Helsinki, Finland
1998
1997
MATTHEW BARNEY
Cremaster V
co-designed costumes with Linda Labelle

8th INTERNATIONAL LACE BIENNIAL, 1997
Musee de Costume et de la Dentalle, Brussels, Belgium
Textilemuseum Max Berk, Heidelberg, Germany

1996
MATTHEW BARNEY
Cremaster I
Costumer
SESAME STREET
Series of alphabet films by Mo Willems
1995

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Snow on the Mesa
Choreography by Robert Wilson

THEATRE DE LA JEUNE LUNE Minneapolis, MN
Pelleas et Melisande

OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Macbeth
costume designer Deb Dryden
Fabric Painter and Dyer

1994
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS/ THEATER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
Fellowship for costume design
EIKO AND KOMA
Wind
costume design and rehearsal assistant
premiered at Jacob’s Pillow