BRISBANE, Australia—Designer Rebekah Roots cast a professional eye over the costumes in the Chinese Spectacular when she saw the show at the Convention Centre, Brisbane April 8.
"I really loved the costumes," she said. "I liked the different textures that they had, light to soft in both their movement and in their visuals."
"[It's the same] for a lot of their fabric, they have a lot of very soft fabric, and then they have a little bit of thick or firmer fabric as well—which makes the softer fabric flow much better and actually draws your eyes to it."
The costumes were not the only things of interest to Ms Roots. She has an avid interest in ballet, but confessed that she knew little about Chinese classical dance.
"I'd never seen this kind of thing before, but I've seen a lot of ballet, so I was comparing it to ballet."
There were a number of differences, she said, the most notable in the movements of the male dancers. The women were .."very, very flowing, but the men "were very stiff in their movements in comparison."
She also noted the difference in technique between ballet and Chinese dance. The dancers were "obviously a lot more acrobatic in this dance than they are in ballet. They still have the flow, you can definitely see the flow, but I think that ballet is a lot more precise in its movements... this is a lot more flowing.
"I like this, I like the flow, rather than the very precise. The commentary on Chinese dance provided by the two MC's during the evening's proceedings had helped her understand Chinese dance more.
"Yeah it was good to have the explanation before the dance, but you did not necessarily need the explanation to get the gist of the dance anyway."
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