>> For the first time in well over two decades, I’ve spent Christmas and New Year’s away from London.I’ve traded in turkey, cold walks and Crimbo TV (I say that, having binged on Downton and Call the Midwife using Hola) for sun, sea and food loaded up with Thai chillis. I’ve just finished up a wonderful stay at Sri Panwa in Phuket – overindulgent piccy post to come later – and I’m now in Sydney, Australia to embark on an exciting trip up to Lost Paradise Festival in Glenworth Valley for New Year’s Eve.
I’m actually there to film some fun content with MTV Australia for their MTV Trippers series with the infinitely more festival-ready Mimi Elashiry. With Wilderness/Port Eliot vibes lingering in the backdrop of this festival, there’ll be somewhat of a New Year’s Eve costume challenge involved, which I’m obviously always up for. I come, ready with a headful of inspiration images, spurred by this BBC4 documentary ‘Dance Rebels’, which charts the history of modern dance. The fluid choreography expounded by the artistic colony of Monte Verita, the folkloric costumes of Ballet Russes by the likes of Mikhail Larionov and wife Natalia Goncharova, avant garde female Dada-ists and Sonia Delaunay’s geometrics, are all coming together somehow when I go on my costume search tomorrow. How this will manifest itself remains to be seen.
If a trip to Sydney is sounding particularly enticing, everyone is free to enter a competition organised by MTV Trippers and Destination New South Wales to win flights to Sydney. You have until 6th January to upload a picture of a festival moment onto Instagram and hashtag with #MTVTrippers and #Win. All the T’s and C’s are here.
Monte Verità community
Costumes by Sophie Taeuber-Arp
‘Simultaneous Dress the Three Women’ by Sonia Delaunay
Costume by Sonia Delaunay for title role from Cleopatra, 1918
Sonia Delaunay in her studio
‘Poeme’ and ‘Danseuse aux Disques’ by Sonia Delaunay
Costumes by Pablo Picasso for Parade, 1917
Costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the 1913 premiere of Rite of Spring
Costumes and paintings by Natalia Goncharova
Costumes by Mikhail Larionov for The Tale of the Buffoon, 1921
Elsa von Freytag
Collages by Hannah Höch
I love this post! Saving this art and thinking about it for a while!
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such fantastic photos
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I’ve never heard of the lost paradise but I sure hope you do have loads of fun and get really good content! Those images look so cool!!
X,Carina / Running White Horses
Thanks for sharing this! I love the palette of colors and textures.
-Laura
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Stunning photos <3
Thank your so much for sharing these art
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So nice 🙂
Have a nice Day! 😉
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Great article, that’s a great collection of photography. Thanks for sharing!
Camy xx
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Looks like you had a really great holiday! It’s really nice to travel and discover wonderful places that are worth visiting. This exposes you to different cultures and new experiences. I love the selection of images that you shared. Thanks for sharing!
Love Sonia Delaunay! My friend Beau (who has a dance-inspired line called Atelier de Geste) owns an edition of Danseuse aux Disques. I love that I get to see it every time I hang at her place
I really appreciate the selection of your post.
And make me thing about the line between theatre and life when you make clothes…
Sometimes just need to pass some time away to realize that people need some time also to include 30´s costumes as their routine wearable
Thank U! reallY iNsPiriNG
Amazing Pictures! Very interesting art and culture!
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You blog is so inspiring..
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, I got to to show my appreciation for your work.