Set and Reset — Costumes
Designed and Printed March and April 2026
For Reed College Spring Dance Concert, May 2026
Photos by Jingzi Zhao
Reed College Dance Department, as part of its Spring Dance Concert 2026, restaged Trisha Brown's epochal 1983 piece Set and Reset. As part of this performance, I was asked to help create the costumes the dancers would be wearing, which would make use of photographs provided by the dancers themselves. I silkscreened these photographs, featuring different textures that the dancers experienced in their day-to-day lives, all over the dancers' transparent sheer costumes.
In order to document the costumes, I created a stop-motion animation of the shirts revolving around a mirrored stage, in order to get a full 360-degree view of the layers of prints.