Case study 1: Brain bug

Brain Bug Performance
Designer and Choreographer: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Narration & Ideas:
The story presents a sacrifice feeding ritual of a giant Brain Bug prop. The prop is inspired from the Starship Troopers movie. The performers are acting like smallers bugs who bow to the big mother bug. From other point of view, the story also could be interpreted as a love story. The Giant Bug, which is suffering from lack of attention and love because it's ugly and scary, has now found love and is merrying one of the performers. The movement of the Brain Bug  and the peformer in the dress is symbolising their wedding ritual. At the end of the story the performers is eaten by the Brain Bug and the performer are celebratin the successful end of the ritual.
As our contribution to the performers, we decided as the end to grab another victim from the audience who also to be eaten by the bug. Most of additional victims were kids(some of them scared and other - excited) because it's easier to put them in the front whole of the bug.

Here's a video mixture of three of our performances in Nottingham Contemporary:

Costumes and Budget:

The biggest part of the costumes were the white bodysuits which I already described in the costume making techniques, some of the also got upper vest in brighter color like orange and purple.
There were also 2 costumes different from the other. Othe of them was made, because of the body spahe of one the performance who was really big so we created the baggy costume which I also showed in the techniques section. The other different costume was bright like the upper vest and is was for the performer inside the bug who was moving it during the performance. Part of it was the visible moustache/front legs of the bug which was moving.

I couldn't find that typeof body suits on the internet so I asked in a shop and the price for that type of bodysuit is around 4-6 pound. The price of a ready mixed paint is 10,99 (available here) but it can be enough for more than 20 costume. So that also makes eround 5 quid per a costume.

Questionnaire Results:

The costumes are proven to have worked very good in the performance and to maximise the effect of an costume. They are characterized by the audience as "Original", "Interesting","Unusual, unique", etc.
Color is among the weakest tools of impact and people have chosen "the it represents the story" as a most noticable aspect. Also the way costume reveal the movement of the dancer is chosen from many people as the strongest tools of impact.