NIDA’s make-up students transformed Ettinghausens dancers into peculiar beings for their final showcase.
In addition to the full range of beauty looks and make-up design, NIDA’s make-up students train in styling wigs, creating prosthetics and special effects for film and stage.
If you’re interested in NIDA’s Diploma of Screen and Media (Specialist Make-up Services) but missed the closing date, email vocational@nida.edu.au.
For their final showcase, Transformation, the make-up students collaborated with dance students from Ettinghausens’ full-time professional stream to create characters through make-up and special effects.
Cirque du Soleil-inspired characters created by Isabelle Coote and Abi Smith, performed by Bejae Ingate and Courtney Robinson.
The dancers fully inhabited the strange identities the make-up students designed and created for them, and brought them to life through movement choreographed by director Natasha Crane.
Make-up supervisors Sandra Wograndl and Cathy Malik guided the students to execute their character looks, some inspired by tradition and others subverting it.
The dancers became unrecognisable as they were transformed into beings from a weirder world, who taunted the audience in a misty, carefully lit environment like that of a carnival haunted house.
Characters inspired by the musical Cats,created by Holly Ball, Monique Muskens and Rebecca Smith, performed by Catherine Cvetko, Melody Lewis and Sophia Calarco.
Characters inspired by pop art – Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman and Poison Ivy; created by Maddison Pepping, Briohny Walker and Rebecca Crismale, performed by Corie Janssen, Alessia Crissani and Issabella Addouj.
This immersive atmosphere was thanks to NIDA’s Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services students, using lighting, sound and video design under the guidance of Production Manager, Simeon Lewis.
NIDA’s Live Production and Technical Services students brought the production to life.
NIDA make-up students also demonstrated their skills in their earlier prosthetic work:
Prosthetics work by Julianne de Matos. Photograph byDenise Sheppard Photography
Prosthetics work by Montana Mozeley. Photograph byDenise Sheppard Photography
Prosthetics work by Tasia Linardos. Photograph byDenise Sheppard Photography
If you’re interested in NIDA’s Diploma of Screen and Media (Specialist Make-up Services) but missed the closing date, email vocational@nida.edu.au.
CUA51015 Diploma of Screen and Media (Specialist Make-up Services)
