RITE OF SPRING - PROCESS

Claudia Schreier's Rite of Spring was ​an exploration in the consequences of disharmony with nature and each other, depicting the decline of a community who stripped nature of its resources to their own detriment, and ultimately resolved to sacrifice one of their own in a vain attempt to retrieve what they lost due to their own actions. 

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Conceptually the first act began with harmony, utilizing fluttering shapes and fabrics printed with plants. The second act is much more reduced, with pleats and cording creating a sense of bony carapace beneath the original soft shapes.