Final Sketch Development

I would would like to describe how I came up with my final theatre design for my main project with examples of the design process. For my final art portfolio project, I will be creating a theatre in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, as I previously mentioned. For my theatre design, I'm going to use an expressionism theme.  Additionally, I looked at the style of expressionism  I have researched expressionist dance costumes because they were worn by people in theatre as I am going create theatre.

                            Minya Diez-Dührkoop, Dance costumes for “Toboggan” (1924)

During the early 1920s in Germany, Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were doing expressionist dance performances. Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were a wife and husband partnership they were so famous during 1920’s. Their costumes were consisting of “ creeping, stamping, squatting, crouching, kneeling, arching, striding, lunging, leaping in mostly diagonal-spiraling patterns” across the stage.

Schulz believed “art should be an expression of struggle” and they are using dance to express “the violent struggle of a female body to achieve central, dominant control of the performance space and its emptiness.”

While researching about these expressionist dance costumes, I have realised I can use these costumes as an inspiration for my theatre design. 

So I begin to look over their cloth details to see if there is a shape I might utilise for my theatre design. 

These are the costumes;

I was very interested in the 1st costume, the shapes of expressionist dances clothes has a potential to suit to my theatre design, as it seems

So I tried these shapes  on an A4 sheet. Here is the process of how I found my final design for theatre;

                              Here I tried to draw a similar shape of hand and foot on the costume.

Then I tried to add some different shapes and angles of lines.

After that I drew from different view angles to understand the sketch better.

Also I have added some shadows and lines to give the shape of the building better.

Lastly, this my final design sketch for my major project.

Finally, I painted my theatre design with coloured inks. I'll change the window frames by reducing the frames to make it nicer. I included Frank Gehry's architectural style into my final sketch, and I think that his well-known Disney Concert Hall provided inspiration to me.  Last but not least, my next  target is to design my theatre in 3D using the programme Sketch-up. For the floor plan, I'll use AutoCAD, and I'll definitely submit them to my blogger.

References: 

Sorene, P. (2019) Brilliant expressionist dance costumers from the 1920s, Flashbak. Available at: https://flashbak.com/brilliant-expressionist-dance-costumers-from-the-1920s-416895/#google_vignette (Accessed: 19 May 2023). 

in Dance, H.| S. 12th (no date) Expressionist dance costumes from the 1920s, and the tragic story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter holdt, Open Culture. Available at: https://www.openculture.com/2019/09/expressionist-dance-costumes-from-the-1920s.html (Accessed: 19 May 2023). 

 Incredible expressionist dance costumes from the 1920s (2020) DangerousMinds. Available at: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/its_murder_incredible_expressionist_dance_costumes_from_1920s (Accessed: 19 May 2023).