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EDITOR’S LETTER The POWER of PERFORMANCE Celebrating the art that holds up a mirror to our turbulent THOMPSON: COLLIER SCHORR; FASHION EDITOR: SAMIRA NASR; HAIR: LACY REDWAY; MAKEUP: ROMY SOLEIMANI; MANICURE: GINA EDWARDS. NASR: JODY ROGAC. SEE THE DIRECTORY FOR SHOPPING DETAILS. times could not be more important right now. In this, our performance issue, we shine a light on performing artists from a range of disciplines—actors, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, artists, and dancers—who have returned to the stage with work that feels urgent, revelatory, and new. For our cover story, Collier Schorr photographed actor Tessa Thompson, whom I’ve known for many years and watched evolve into a steady, self-assured force. Tessa stars this summer in two big franchises—the latest Marvel blockbuster, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the fourth season of HBO’s Westworld—but as always remains grounded. During the pandemic, she took the opportunity to look at the kind of work she was doing—and Hollywood—through a wider lens, launching her own production company, with plans to bring stories that represent a more diverse range of characters and experiences, many of them about women of color and people in marginalized communities, to the screen. “How do we create worlds where the kind of protagonists that we don’t often get to see get to take up space?” she muses to writer Lauren Michele Jackson. Dior coat and corset belt; 800-929-DIOR. Bulgari High When our features director, Kaitlyn Greenidge, was speaking to Jewelry earrings; 800-BULGARI. Falke socks, $19; falke.com. Pulitzer Prize–nominated cultural critic Soraya Nadia McDonald about how to write about the breadth of talent featured in our Church’s shoes, $1,100; church-footwear.com. performance portfolio—which includes everyone from Mikhail Baryshnikov to Maggie Rogers to Black Thought and Questlove of the Roots—a throughline became clear: Our bodies are all under threat in some way or another right now, whether because of climate change, the perilous state of our reproductive freedom, systemic racism, or the pandemic. The art that so many of these performers are creating forces us to confront these threats, to find the humor, light, joy, and resolve in the darkness. Camille A. Brown, the first Black woman to both choreograph and direct a Broadway show in more than 65 years with a revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, put it like this: “There’s a future past what we think is the end.” It is a thread that runs through the issue, including our Voices section, where we spotlight the members of the Kyiv City Ballet, most of whom arrived in Paris the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and were subsequently stranded. They keep dancing, in their temporary home at the Théâtre du Châtelet, as an act of resistance. “The stage is the place of war for us,” the company’s founder and general director, Ivan Kozlov, tells Alice Cavanagh, who profiled the troupe. “With every successful performance and every happy audience, we show we are strong as a nation.” Of course, in fashion, the catwalk is the stage. And so I’m thrilled to pay tribute to movement directors like my friend Stephen Galloway and Les Child in our News section. They are the unseen visionaries who turn a walk into a strut, a runway into a show. Whether you are planning a trip to your local theater or New York City, I hope this issue inspires you to support the performing arts. 08/22 12 B A Z A A R

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CONTRIBUTORS ON THE MOST MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE THEY’VE SEEN COLLIER SCHORR LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON DAN MARTENSEN HEATHER HAVRILESKY SCHORR AND MCDONALD: SELF PORTRAITS; JACKSON: JORGE I. COTTE; MARTENSEN: LIAM CLARKE; HAVRILESKY: WILLY SOMMA; VAN DE WIJNGAARD: SCOTT CURNOW BAKER; KOUNTOURE: JOACHIM MUELLER RUCHHOLTZ PHOTOGRAPHER: WRITER: PHOTOGRAPHER: WRITER: “Tessa Thompson Takes “Tessa Thompson Takes “Winona Ryder Is Still “Winona Ryder Is Still Processing,” page 100 Processing,” page 100 Her Time,” page 64 Her Time,” page 64 “I was once working on “My daughter and her friends “Anne Teresa De “Kelela from up close— a music video for the performed ‘It’s the Hard- Keersmaeker’s dance nothing quite like it.” company, Rosas, performing Yeah Yeah Yeahs. We were Knock Life’ for a talent show in Fase, Four Movements all in a practice space third grade. I choreographed to the Music of Steve Reich drinking tequila. They the whole thing, which was out of character for me. On the while I was onstage were playing a few songs photographing it.” from their upcoming album. night of the performance, I cried my eyes out. They were It was already pretty amazing, but then Karen O absurdly cute and energetic and funny. I’m pretty sure I’ll started taking requests. I had to pinch myself.” never beat that one!” VINCENT VAN DE WIJNGAARD ISABELLE KOUNTOURE ZARA MIRKIN SORAYA NADIA MCDONALD PHOTOGRAPHER: STYLIST: STYLIST: WRITER: “Going Places,” “Going Places,” “On With the Show,” “On With the Show,” page 76 page 76 page 88 page 88 “In the late ’90s, I attended the North Sea Jazz Festival. “Given that music has always “When I was 16, I saw Missy “The play What to Send Up One of the performers was been my first passion, Elliott in concert in Aotearoa When It Goes Down, written saxophonist Michael Brecker. I feel very lucky that I got to [New Zealand]. She had by Aleshea Harris and During a performance of see Lucy Pearl perform live in bronchitis, and instead of directed by Whitney White, ‘Song for Barry,’ a tribute to canceling her show because because of its bold, smart, the great trombonist Barry the summer of 2000 as she couldn’t sing, she went the opening act for D’Angelo’s ahead and did it and just sensitive, challenging Rogers, Brecker reached danced with all of her dance sensibilities and because stratospheric heights. I heard Voodoo tour. Aside from crew. The choreography and the incredible sound, outfits were insane. I will it respects grief but harmonic changes I had always remember it as one of never despairs.” never heard before. It struck Lucy Pearl was always going the best shows I ever saw.” to do only one album as a me like lightning.” band together, so that made it extra special!” 22 B A Z A A R

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VOICE S THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS SHAPING THE CULTURE BAZAAR The POLITICS of DANCING For members of the KYIV CITY BALLET, who were STRANDED in PARIS by the Russian INVASION of UKRAINE, continuing to PERFORM has been a matter of SURVIVAL— but also an ACT OF RESISTANCE On an unseasonably sultry afternoon in May, I wind my way down the back stairs of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris’s First Arrondissement, a Haussmannian hall built in the Italian style in the mid-19th century and one of the city’s premier concert venues. It’s my second visit in two weeks, but it’s easy to get lost navigating the twists and turns of the theater’s narrow corridors, with only the growing crescendo of jingling tambourines emanating from below to serve as my guide. Inside the lower rehearsal studio—named after Anna Pavlova, the famed prima ballerina who once danced here with the Ballets Russes—the Kyiv City Ballet company is mastering a new choreog- raphy. It’s called “Tarantella,” a nod to the upbeat Italian folk dance traditionally accompanied by tambourines. The dancers swirl and spin in a colorful array of leggings and leotards, with diaphanous circle skirts and pointe shoes. The company’s associate director, Ekaterina Kozlova, 30, sits on a stool at the front of the room, leading the session, while her husband, Ivan Kozlov, 39, the founder and general director of the Kyiv City Ballet, surveys the scene with a broad smile. “They’re all here,” he says, referring to the 38 members of his touring group, who are together for the first ➤ 38 TEXT BY ALICE CAVANAGH

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VOICES PROFILE Ivan Kozlov, founder and general director of the Kyiv City Ballet (pictured above, standing in the center), with his wife and the company’s associate director, Ekaterina Kozlova (to Kozlov’s right, in gray), overseeing a rehearsal at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, where they’ve been given an open-ended residency time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began this year. They remained there for nearly two months, until Kozlov could The majority of the Kyiv City Ballet arrived in Paris on February arrange for them to be transported to Paris by bus, which happened shortly before my visit. 23, ahead of a planned two-week French tour performing the canonical Russian ballet The Nutcracker. The following morning, PARIS HAS LONG BEEN A REFUGE for artists—in particular, the entire company awoke to the news that Russia had launched dancers. The Théâtre du Châtelet itself famously played host to air strikes across Ukraine. A mass-scale evacuation followed. Many the Ballets Russes, Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev’s avant- of the dancers’ families fled the country, with the exception of garde dance company, which made its debut in Paris in 1909. The the men between the ages of 18 and 60, who were mandated to city would emerge as a haven for Russian performers, artists, and stay in Ukraine to assist the armed forces; a male soloist who has émigrés who set off for western Europe amid the social and political danced with the company, Oleksandr Dushakov, is there right upheaval in the run-up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. At the now, lending his hand to the war effort. same time, it became a melting pot of nationalities and cultures, an alchemic influence that spurred one of the most fertile creative It quickly became clear that the dancers would not be able to periods in French cultural history, “Les Années Folles”—the Jazz Age. safely return home at the end of their tour, so Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s office set about finding a solution. The company was put The Kyiv City Ballet’s residency at the Théâtre du Châtelet has up at a central city hotel, and on March 5 the Kyiv City Ballet was meant having a regular space for practices, not performances—though invited to take up temporary residence at the Théâtre du Châtelet. shortly after it was announced, tour managers began to scout for bookings so the company could continue to work. They had just two In early March, as they worked to finalize the residency, 10 principals, Olga Posternak and Mikhail Shcherbakov, among them other dancers who had either left Ukraine or were abroad when and nothing but the Nutcracker costumes they brought for the tour— the attacks began all made their way to the Czech Republic, where they were given space to train at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc. 40 B A Z A A R

which, for the women, consisted of white tutus dusted with iridescent company are young; roughly half are between the ages of 18 and sequins. So Kozlov and Kozlova went about quickly developing a new 21. In the months since the war broke out, they’ve developed a show called Gala, a survey of their repertoire—prominent classical strong familial bond; they’ve spent most of their waking hours ballets, along with folk and modern dance—featuring a slice-of-life together and their nights billeted in the same hotel. When they’re opening in which the dancers reenact a rehearsal session onstage. not performing, the dancers are at the theater rehearsing, six days a week. The daily routine has other benefits. “To dance, you have Gala debuted on March 8 at the Théâtre du Châtelet as part of to be so focused mentally and physically, so it is very comforting a fundraiser featuring dancers from both the Kyiv City Ballet and for the dancers to be able to focus on something else,” says Kozlova. the Paris Opera Ballet. The portion of the show meant to mimic a rehearsal was led by the Paris Opera Ballet’s famed dance director, “What we really give them—and I use this word with great Aurélie Dupont, and Bruno Bouché, the artistic director of the caution—is a sense of normality,” Lauriot dit Prévost adds. “Just to Ballet of the National Opera of the Rhine. “It was a very moving say hello every morning when they arrive, to spend five minutes evening,” says Thomas Lauriot dit Prévost, the general director around the coffee machine and to ask how their day is.” of the Théâtre du Châtelet. “Then, it was very possible Ukraine would give up, but now the situation on the field is very different,” “No one expects war,” says Kozlova. “We just try to make sure he explains. “Ukraine is resisting in the most incredible way.” that everyone, every day, is in an okay place, and if we see someone struggling, we make sure we spend extra time with them or that Indeed, for Kozlov, ensuring the company can continue to they have the resources they need.” dance is itself an act of resistance. “The stage is the place of war for us,” he said when we first met in late April. “With every successful KOZLOVA, WHO WAS BORN AND EDUCATED in the U.S. to performance and every happy audience, we show we are strong Ukrainian-American parents, moved to Ukraine at 16 to study ballet. as a nation, that there is no way to beat us.” Kozlov’s parents are the Ukrainian ballet dancers Tatyana Borovky and Anatolii Kozlov, both longtime principals of the National Since the Kyiv City Ballet was founded in 2012, the company Opera of Ukraine, which makes him ballet royalty back home. has never had a home theater, so touring has always been its focus. His mother and stepfather have just rejoined him and Kozlova As the war unfolded, there was never any hesitation from the in Paris. His father, however, remains boarded up in his home in members of the company about continuing to perform. downtown Kyiv with his own 84-year-old mother. “We stay here because we can dance. We can represent our “We are working here. We are not hiding,” Kozlov says. “It’s country,” says Elizaveta Nadenenko, 18, who left Kyiv for Slovakia more productive to make money for our country and keep our in February before joining the company in Paris. Her 28-year-old artists busy than to hide in bomb shelters,” he offers. “I might be brother is back in Ukraine, charged with delivering food and wrong, but that is the way I feel.” medical supplies. During their stay, the dancers have had access to the majestic “I have to hope that everything will be okay, and in the meantime Palais Garnier and the dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, who I do what I know how to do,” offers another dancer, 21-year-old rehearse and perform there—an opportunity so surreal that it has Polina Rabotina, whose twin sister and mother had gone to stay been difficult to take stock. “The Paris Opera is to ballet what with her aunt in Innsbruck, Austria, but have since returned to Kyiv. the Vatican is to Catholics,” says Kozlova. “If these events were ➤ Like Nadenenko and Rabotina, most of the members of the “The STAGE is the place of WAR for us. With every PERFORMANCE, we show we are STRONG as a nation, that there is no way to BEAT us.” IVAN KOZLOV, FOUNDER AND GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE KYIV CITY BALLET

VOICES PROFILE SITTINGS EDITOR: KARO ROSE Members of the Kyiv City Ballet’s touring group, which has remained in Paris since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in late February. “I have to hope that everything will be okay, and in the meantime I do what I know how to do,” says dancer Polina Rabotina, 21, whose mother and twin sister are back in Kyiv. happening slower, probably everyone would be much more in awe.” how does that help Ukraine?” he says, referring to the works of “I have mixed feelings being here,” admits Yaroslava Antonenko, artists like Tchaikovsky, whose scores the Kyiv City Ballet frequently dances to when performing The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. 21, who joined the corps de ballet last year. “It’s great to be making so much progress, and I always dreamed of being in Paris, but ON THE TOP FLOOR of the Théâtre du Châtelet, there is a long obviously not in these circumstances.” reception room with parquet floors named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who was born in Kyiv to Polish parents but grew up in In reaction to the war, the sanctions on Russia have extended imperial Russia. The room features a row of double doors that to a kind of cultural repudiation of Russian artists and art, applied open out onto a balcony with a view over the Place du Châtelet to figures and works both past and present: Russia’s expulsion and the Fontaine du Palmier and its large, monumental column from the Eurovision Song Contest (and Ukraine’s subsequent win); with the gilded goddess of victory perched atop. the cancellation of the state-sponsored Bolshoi Ballet’s summer season at the U.K.’s Royal Opera House (the company is said to I watched the dancers, in their full Nutcracker gear, jostle and have close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin); a debate giggle here while taking in the vista. On the schedule for that afternoon over the proposed suspension of a course on Russian modernist were lessons with a group of French tango champions. Earlier that writer Fyodor Dostoevsky at a university in Milan. week, the company was given a juggling tutorial, as local artists of all stripes have continued to volunteer their time and offer support. Nevertheless, the cultural histories of ballet in Russia and Ukraine are inextricably linked. Koslov, who has danced for both “People might think dancers must have good coordination, the National Opera of Ukraine and the Russian ballet companies but we were terrible,” Kozlova says. the Eifman and the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg, sees merit in renouncing artists who have supported the Russian invasion but “Yes, and for a moment, everybody forgot about the war,” is wary of a blanket war on Russian culture. “If we cancel history, adds Kozlov. “We were all young kids again.” HB 42 B A Z A A R

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VOICES AS TOLD TO The PLAY’S the THING Shakespeare’s HAMLET has been endlessly ADAPTED. Playwright JAMES IJAMES’s FAT HAM turns the chilling TRAGEDY into a RIOTOUS exploration of QUEERNESS. I  n May of this year, James Ijames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize demand Juicy kill Rev. Early in the play, Juicy turns to the audience for Drama for his play Fat Ham, a bawdy, Black, funny, and and soliloquies, “Fathers and sons. That shit can get dark. / unabashedly queer adaptation (of sorts) of Shakespeare’s You know. / When the chemistry ain’t right. When the father / Hamlet. Set on a North Carolina pig farm, the play closely follows Is too heavy and the son is too light. / When the father thinks the beats of the famous tragedy but remixes them into a the son is too light / When the son is too heavy. / That fucks shit meditation on masculinity, sexuality, mourning, and joy. Juicy, up.” It’s a virtuoso moment that announces Ijames as not only the play’s protagonist and Hamlet stand-in, is a fat Black queer a major talent but also, rarest of things, a writer who surprises boy who has just seen the ghost of his father, Pap. Pap has returned his audience. to earth for revenge: He claims that his brother, Juicy’s uncle Rev, murdered him in order to marry his wife, Tedra, and visits Here, he tells Harper’s Bazaar about Fat Ham and the play’s Juicy on the afternoon of a cookout celebrating their union to conversations around queerness and hauntings, the nature of heaven, and humor as a gateway to the audience in theater. 44 B A Z A A R

THIS PAGE: LESLIE RIVERA; OPPOSITE PAGE: FROM THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, © 2022 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, LLC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, USED UNDER LICENSE GROWING UP, THERE WAS A RIGIDITY that I associated with The soliloquies are supposed to be addressed to the audience, masculinity that I never really fit into. And Hamlet has always like they’re commiserating. We treat those soliloquies with been a character that I read as being soft, porous. To me, softness such reverence. When we do that, they lose a little bit of the, is also about being penetrable. For people who move through like, “Okay, so listen, I need some help” aspect, which is really the world that way, they’re always catching those “slings and what’s happening there. When I think about Elizabethan theater, arrows,” to use Shakespeare’s language. But I think the gift is if those plays were blockbusters. Those were the Marvel you can experience those things, they remind you to be softer, movies at the time. So people were screaming back at what was to be even more porous. That’s what Juicy, the main character, happening onstage. finds for himself over the course of the play. I also fully believe that there’s no such thing as the fourth Juicy is haunted by the ghost of his father. A haunting is a wall in theater. I think the fourth wall was invented because at thing that forces you to see something in a way that you wouldn’t some point, there was a director or actor or playwright that was if it weren’t present. In Fat Ham, Juicy would’ve been grudgingly like, “I’m afraid of the audience, so I want them to be quiet and putting up decorations for his mom’s second shotgun wedding not visible.” All of theater history preceding that moment pushes and he would’ve just been miserable. But then the haunting comes against that. Shakespeare’s theater, the Globe, is full-daylight and he can’t rest. He has to reckon with it. I think that’s what acting in the round. There’s no hiding. The Greeks, same thing. happens when you discover that you’re queer. The way I like If you go all the way back to the beginning of storytelling, there’s to think about queerness is everything about me is pushing against no real separation between the people who are experiencing what everybody expects. Everything about me is pushing the story and the people who are telling the story. I want my against “what should be.” And that’s exactly what a haunting is. plays to constantly make that more central in the practice of Being a queer person in the world, you always are forcing people theater, even when we’re inside of a state-of-the-art venue. around you to see things in a way they wouldn’t normally see it. The things I’m trying to say with the play are, what if we One of the things I love about Hamlet is that the ghost is so chose our own pleasure, our own healing over pain, or chose to active. It’s not just a specter that moves through and is a warning be ourselves over what someone else wants us to be? I think I’m or sort of a vibe. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the ghost is one that always trying to write toward Black people. I’m talking directly comes to you and says very clearly a thing you need to understand. to people who look like me: marginalized folks who we often Hamlet’s father shows up to whoever he needs to show up to in feel like we have to fit into a thing. I’m saying you don’t have to order to get the message out. But in this play, Juicy’s father comes do that. Just do what you want to do. HB directly to him and only him. It feels ancestral. Legacy and inher- itance are these inescapable things. When I’m gone, I leave things The cast of Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater production of Fat Ham in my wake. Being intentional in this life about what you’re leaving, I think, is heaven. When I’m talking about heaven, I’m talking about what I’m trying to create so that when I’m gone, this place is better. I think about that a lot. MY RELATIONSHIP TO WRITING HUMOROUSLY about very difficult things freed me in a lot of ways. I don’t know that I’ve written any play that’s void of humor. I like things that are sophis- ticated and then fall into something that is very physical and visceral. That’s what makes it funny to me. I always say my sense of humor is a cross between The Three Stooges and the ’90s sitcom Martin. I’m very much informed by Martin Lawrence and Larry, Moe, and Curly. I have this feeling that the physiology of laughter is roughly the same as weeping. There’s a thing the body needs that’s about release and allowance and permission that’s tied up with laughter and with weeping. When you ask people to laugh, when you offer them the circumstances in which they might laugh, it opens something up in them that then you can say something that they might not hear if they weren’t in that state of being receptive, that state of being open. Laughter is a real portal. It opens the possibility of a different kind of understanding and empathy because laughter is contagious; it passes. I like the audience to always know that it might be called upon to listen closer or to be in privacy with a character at any given moment, which is why, throughout the play, Juicy speaks to members of the audience and other characters acknowledge them. The breaking of the fourth wall is in Hamlet as well. 08/22

NEWS EDITED BY ALISON S. COHN On the CATWALK, Yeah! CHILD: PAWEL PYSZ; NASH: JEFF SPICER/BFC/GETTY IMAGES; YAGAMOTO: PICZO FOR HARRY’S OF LONDON; CHADWICK: BRETT WARREN FOR MATCHESFASHION; DONNELLON: TRISTAN BEJAWN; LAUREN: FUJIO EMURA; CHIDIAC: HEAVEN I STAY; GALLOWAY: PARI DUKOVIC/TRUNK ARCHIVE The SECRET behind a good RUNWAY STRUT? The MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, an increasingly ESSENTIAL component to CREATING a viral FASHION SHOW. Center: Stephen Galloway. Clockwise from top left: Les Child, Saul Nash, Pat Boguslawski, Yagamoto, Emma Chadwick, Simon Donnellon, Sigrid Lauren, Sharleen Chidiac. 46 TEXT BY ALISON S. COHN BAZAAR

TOP TO BOTTOM, FROM UPPER LEFT: VICTOR VIRGILE/GAMMA RAPHO VIA GETTY IMAGES; STEPHANE CARDINALE/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES; “WORK IT, GIRL (Give a twirl!) / Do your working on campaign and editorial shoots GREG KESSLER/COURTESY BRANDON MAXWELL; HATNIM LEE; MADISON VOELKEL; COURTESY VAQUERA; JASON LLOYD EVANS thing on the runway,” RuPaul famously with photographers Inez van Lamsweerde exhorted in “Supermodel (You Better Work),” and Vinoodh Matadin, which led to fashion- his hit 1992 ode to the coltish catwalk strides Top to bottom, from upper left: Coach, Ami, show commissions. “I can do a good Janet of Linda, Naomi, Christy, Cindy, and the Brandon Maxwell, Peter Do, Eckhaus Latta, Jackson ‘Rhythm Nation’ 5-6-7-8, but I was rest of the mononymous wonder women of never really choreographing the models. the ’90s. But by the early aughts, much of Vaquera, Harris Reed I was giving more of a movement sugges- that singularity and originality had disap- tion,” he explains. Galloway decided to call peared. It was supplanted by the militaristic himself a “creative movement director,” and stomp of processions of stern-looking young thus movement direction as we now know models who didn’t pose as much as pause it was born. (quickly) at the end of the runway so the camera pit could snap the kind of flat, For Ami’s Fall 2022 show this past standardized slideshow imagery that the January at Paris’s Palais Brongniart, which dawn of digital media demanded. sits above a transport hub, designer Alexandre Mattiussi wanted the models Now, though, the pendulum appears to embody a “subway type of energy,” to have swung back. Personality, perfor- which Galloway had them translate by mance, and theatricality are once again moving with a driven sense of anticipation. being celebrated at fashion shows—and “I said, ‘You’ve got to get to the grocery store. “working it” is experiencing a renaissance They only have that one sandwich that you too. TikTok has something to do with that: want. You have to figure out a way how to The social-media platform du jour has get to that. Because if you don’t get there built an entire memetic universe around with purpose, it’s going to be gone,’ ” movement—in particular, dance—and fashion Galloway recalls. shows have the potential to reach a much wider audience if they go viral there. Plus, The goal of a movement director, accord- those ’90s runway walks have been redis- ing to Child, a former dancer with Michael covered by Gen Z stans who memorialize Clark Company who founded the U.K.’s first them in carefully curated montages. And vogue house in the late ’80s, is to draw out even runway photographers are mixing it models’ personalities. “I don’t want them up, supplementing traditional straight-on walking the generic way that the agents teach, shots by capturing the way clothes move where they stomp quite aggressively,” he from a variety of angles and perspectives. says. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, you scared me to death, girl! No, love, let’s see you.’ ” While it might seem like anyone with enough swagger can strut, the secret to Child, who has directed shows for a good walk has always been knowing how BodyMap, Bella Freud, and Alexander to move. Enter the movement director. Not McQueen, is now Kim Jones’s go-to move- quite choreographer, though often with a ment director at Fendi. “I have known and background in dance, a movement director admired Les since I was a teenager,” says sits at the intersection of the performing arts Jones. “His skills and ability to make the and fashion, tasked with bringing the ideas at models and performers at ease and alive play in a collection to life and helping today’s are second to none. He knows how to make models put their best foot forward. Pioneers a character.” in the field such as Stephen Galloway and Les Child have made the role an essential Galloway and Child have set the stage part of fashion shows. for a new cohort of movement direc- tors who are helping to reconceive the role “I always thought that the title ‘chore- movement can play in presenting a collec- ographer’ just didn’t seem right,” says tion. During Maison Margiela’s Spring 2020 Los Angeles–based Galloway, who collabo- show, model Leon Dame barreled down the rates with Tom Ford and Brandon Maxwell runway with a zigzagging, hip-dipping strut and danced with Ballet Frankfurt for two that instantly went viral. “People were calling, decades before retiring in 2005. (He also saying, ‘Oh, that was something new,’ ” recalls served as what he half jokingly refers Pat Boguslawski, a Paris-based movement to as “hips and lips coordinator” for the director who has worked with John Galliano Rolling Stones.) at Margiela since 2018. (Boguslawski also got his start in dance, studying at the Debbie In the early 2010s, Galloway started Reynolds Performing Arts Studio in L.A.) ➤ 08/22 47

N EWS “I was like, ‘That was nothing new. Back in ON THE CATWALK, YEAH! something that stops you from scrolling, FROM TOP: JACOPO RAULE/GETTY IMAGES; NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES; JOHN PHILLIPS/BFC/GETTY IMAGES FOR BFC; COURTESY KHAITE; COURTESY MARNI the day, people were doing more crazy things essentially,” says Emma Chadwick, a New on the runway, and it wasn’t shocking.’ ” From top: Fendi, Saul Nash, York–based Ballet Basel alumna who worked Jawara Alleyne, Khaite, Marni on many of Proenza Schouler’s recent video When audiences are trained to expect a projects and teamed with Coach and Khaite steady pace, altering the speed or energy of this season. “Designers know that people a walk can be arresting. Sigrid Lauren, one want to see clothes moving in a way that’s half of the Brooklyn-based performance-art unexpected.” Chadwick incorporates a broad duo FlucT, created an almost trancelike effect range of gestures into her movement direc- at Peter Do’s Fall 2022 show by challenging tion; the StrangerThings–esque mise-en-scène the models to walk languidly around the at Coach featured a model walking a dog three sides of the open stage and then even and two others on bicycles. Khaite showcased slower down the central runway. models strolling in pace with a spotlight- wielding robotic arm. At Marni in Milan, Brooklyn-based Sharleen Chidiac devised a pattern that saw For London-based designer and move- the models pass through the standing-room- ment director Saul Nash, the two sides of only audience in a dark, cavernous space his practice are one and the same. “When led by flashlight-wielding art-school-student I’m designing, I’m thinking about what the “torchbearers” before stepping onto an day-to-day life of the end wearer might be elevated runway. “It was very intentional that and whether my clothes inhibit movement it was slow and maybe not what you expected or enable freedom,” says Nash, who studied a fashion show to be,” she says. “I directed performance design and practice at Central them to be meditative and openhearted and Saint Martins before pursuing a master’s in just very present and light.” menswear design at the Royal College of Art. He frequently has friends from the For Harris Reed’s Fall 2022 show in contemporary-dance world walk in his shows. London, Simon Donnellon, a Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance– U ltimately,what many of these movement trained movement director, worked with directors hope to achieve, in addition to the designer to create a tableau vivant of getting your attention, is a sense of whimsy sorts that featured models in exaggerated and joy. “I think one thing that has come gigot-sleeve blouses and fishtail maxiskirts out of the shows since the pandemic is the making big, deliberate arm gestures—very models are acting like they’re happy to be slowly—to a live soundtrack by Sam Smith. there,” says Galloway. “For so long, they were “A big, impactful movement captures my eye conditioned not to care, but if people see they way more than a still image,” says Donnellon. are having fun in the show, it lifts spirits.” “I’ve always prided myself on never doing the traditional quote-unquote ‘runway That’s something Patric DiCaprio, the experience,’ with emotionless faces and a codesigner of New York label Vaquera, can bunch of stomping, but actually showing get behind. Models at the brand’s shows characters living themselves,” adds Reed. perform an intense speedwalk with the torso thrust forward, arms pumping, and That same week in London, designer feet stomping in a seeming parody of the Jawara Alleyne put on an exuberant slashed, plodding, somber ’00s march. Casting safety-pinned ode to punk rebellion. “I got director Walter Pearce of Midland Agency all these models to walk down the catwalk created the walk while modeling for smiling and swearing at people,” says the Hood by Air and has since evolved it in show’s movement director, Yagamoto. “So his behind-the-scenes work on shows for they’ll smile here, and then they’ll change Vaquera and Eckhaus Latta. “Fashion is not their attitude and give people dirty looks that serious, so it’s great when people can on this side and give people middle fingers find humor in it,” DiCaprio says. “Because up here and blow kisses there.” we do too! That’s part of why we’re like, ‘I’m so fierce; let me do my crazy walk.’ It’s T he right movement direction can result funny to exaggerate it to the point that it’s in a more engaged audience, which is almost like a meme.” HB crucial during these highly distractible social-media-dominated times. “It has to be BAZAAR 48