Costume

open with male dancer wearing metal discos around neck

• light bounce off disks, creating a fun party effect, engaging the audience from the very start.

• I think they’re circular to like to the title - A Linha Curva

different bright colours, red, yellow, green, blue, pink

• set the dance at a samba carnival and adds to the fun, lively atmosphere

• colours complement the colourful flashing lights, as if they are at a party.

Revealing, mesh material

• Just like those worn by Samba dancers and bare chest capoeira dancers - geographical location of Brazil.

• they are revealing to show how body confident Brazilians are while also linking to the costal, beachy vibe of Brazil.

Tops open differently for male and female dancers - men front female back

• enables us to identify genders of the dancers - helps to understand the theme of men communicating with women

• open chest for men shows the body confidence that Brazilians have

Tops are all ties at the neck slightly differently

• dancers have slightly different individual appearances.

• shows the dancer shave a sense of their own personality in their costume.

zips are positioned in different directions - vertical, horizontal, diagonal

• complement the lighting design

• colour of the zips link to a Samba parade, and the zips could link to the flirty, revealing of themselves

Bar foot and wear wet look, short, Lycra shorts

• see the fast footwork of the Samba Style within motifs, e.g. Robson Motif

• I think the wet look links to the costal/ beech culture of Brazil