Dress Up 2019

performance, 40 minutes 
fabric, wood, ceramics glazed with breast milk, stainless steel spoons, challah bread (buttons),.
Hunter College MFA Thesis November 2019
choreographer,  performer, ceramics, wood and garments Ye'ela Wilschanski
photos and video: Maya Baran
 
full performance

making of Dress Up

Dress up is visual storytelling about domestic care giving rituals and multi generational relations. Inspired by my dress up game memories versus the adult I became. The performance includes seven architectural garments forming a floor, blanket, tablecloth, book and walls. The first sheer garment has buttons made from challa (bread) and four wind instruments sewn in the shoulder pads. Six rings glazed with breast milk are repurposed as plates, bells and wind instruments. Eight frames create structures as a table, hopscotch, windows, pedestal finally as a suitcase. 
The Piyyut “Simu Lev” (pay attention)  is traditionally recited at dusk.