In another performance the male dancer who stood under a huge
hoop-skirt and held up the female dancer who played giant Mother Ginger wrenched his back during the show.
"It's a very practical piece, or at least it was back during the
hoop-skirt era," laughs Gloria.
We have raked the old ash heap of failure in the state and found an old human
hoop-skirt who has failed as a businessman, who has failed as an editor, who has failed as a preacher, and we are going to run him for Congressman-at-Large."
Walker is famous for monstrous and delicate, often near-life-size black-paper silhouettes, assembled from the boneyard of southern gothic--a pigtail here, an apron there, a bared breast, a
hoop-skirt, a broad-brimmed hat, a penis.
Why not give those
hoop-skirt columns a dose of Disney coloration?
Who should pay them a surprise visit but giant,
hoop-skirted, monkey-faced, basso-voiced Carnaval, soon joined by giddy Folly; their invitation to dress up and party proves irresistible, despite the pious efforts of Reason (in nun's habit) and her two monastic sidekicks.
Not only does his choice of blue complement the white summer dress she wore at the start of the night, it also goes well with the blue and white
hoop-skirted dress she slipped into to pick up her award for Best Solo Artist of the Year.
subway, meets a
hoop-skirted English tutor with a tremor, a tippling
Setting the story in 1939 - against Hitler's invasion of Poland and the
hoop-skirted ballyhoo of the Gone with the Wind premiere parties - gave Uhry "lots of echoes and shadows to work with."
The
hoop-skirted costumes by Anita Yavich are positively gorgeous, but the set design, with its bright frame and semi-transparent scrim panels, fails to capture the dark mood of the piece.