BY: SARAH DELAPPE
ARTIST STATEMENT
This indoor soccer field are these high school girls’ sanctuary from the outside world, a place where they feel safe to talk about topics from periods to genocide. Sarah DeLappe, profoundly depicts teenage girlhood with this pack of female warriors. The space should feel like it goes on forever by using reflection, repetition of turf and size. It’s very important to make it feel like the audience is a part of the show by transforming the seating units to feel like bleachers so they can watch these girls go through more than just a soccer game. We are expected to be perfect in life and this show takes you on a journey of recognizing who you are and to portray these young women as more than just dainty and fragile. LED tape runs along the sides of the turf floor to help with the idea of the set going on forever. Each player has customized props tailored to their personality from their backpack types to small pins on their bags.
GROUNDPLAN
#2 KNEELING ON GROUND EATING ORANGE SLICES QUICKLY WHILE #46 IS IN SHOCK WATCHING HER
THE WOLVES TEAM WARMING UP WITH KICKING SOCCER BALLS TO EACH OTHER
THE WOLVES TEAM PHOTO WITH ORANGE SLICES IN MOUTHS
TIMEOUT SCENE WITH #00 LETTING OUT ANGER THROUGH WARMUPS AND KICKING SOCCER BALLS AT TURF WALL AFTER HOURS
THE WOLVES SOCCER PLAYER #2 TAKING A BREAK BY THE BENCH AGAINST PLEXI WALL WITH THE GO WOLVES BANNER HANGING ABOVE AUDIENCE SEATING
THE WOLVES LIGHTING TRANSITION INTO RUNNING WARM UPS WITH TEAM UP AGAINST TURF WALL
THE WOLVES TRANSITION LIGHTING WITH LED DIFFUSERS HIGHLIGHTING SIDE PARAMETERS OF ASTRO TURF FLOOR
THE WOLVES TEAM PASSING SOCCER BALLS TO EACH OTHER WITH CONE DIVIDERS
THE WOLVES TEAM PASSING THE SOCCER BALL TO EACH OTHER IN A CIRCLE WITH THE GO HORNETS BANNER HANGING ABOVE AUDIENCE SEATING
#46 PRACTICING WITH SOCCER BALL SINGING WHILE EVERYONE WATCHES HER
THE WOLVES TEAM PRACTICING THROUGHOUT SPACE
THE WOLVES BEGINNING OF END SCENE WITH #46 ENTERING FIELD ALONE THROUGH PLEXI WALL WITH SOCCER BALL IN HAND
WOLVES PAW PRINT ON SIDES OF BLEACHERS
PROCESS
1/4" SCALE MODEL
1/4" SCALE MODEL
PANORAMA OF LOAD IN
TURF WALL LOAD IN
TURF LIGHT FOCUS
LEXAN WALL LOAD IN
LEXAN WALL LOAD IN
PAW PRINT BLEACHER PLUGS
WOLVES BANNER LOAD IN
HORNETS BANNER LOAD IN
CMFT PERFORMANCE THEATRE
DIRECTION: SARAH WANSLEY | SCENIC: FRANNY SEBASTIANO
LIGHTING: STEVEN ZHANG | COSTUMES: KYLIE MADDEN
SOUND: NINA FIELD | CHOREOGRAPHY: CLAUDIA SWIDZINSKI
PHOTOGRAPHY: XAVIER BOYER/ FRANNY SEBASTIANO