AN ELEGANT SYNTHESIS BETWEEN
INNOVATION AND TRADITION
While planning the making of the scene costume for the
Folk Group "LA BASULATA", we were previously wondering ourselves a
question: did it exist in the past of our town a typical local dressing that
we coulda have take as a reference point to start from in designing our
costume? Well, the answer (even if
partially..) has been ALMOST positive: there actually was a certain kind of
dress once the women from Baia e Latina used to wear. However, the last and,
probably, ONLY trace of this kind of dressing has been found in an old
painting (see image left), representing a female figure as seen...from
the back!!
Notwithstanding some recent attempts owed by local
researchers (e.g. the difficult studies carried out by Prof. Simeone Veccia)
in trying to "reconstruct" also
the
front view of the painting (see image right), the results immediately
looked like they couldn't meet the stringent technical requirements of the
Group: in fact, behind its evident beauty, we realized that the costume
obtained, woulda have been too much "uncomfortable" to wear and it wouldn't
have left an ample moving freedom needed from the dancers of the Group,
especially during the unchained typical "tarantella" dances...
At this point, we had to forget our initial project and
we had to start necessarily working on some other plans; that's why we
tried to design autonomously some sketches to choose the definitive model
for the official costume of the Group,
still keeping, at least, the base colours reached in the painting
above-mentioned.
Among all the sketches we've provided, the model designed by
Rosanna Cunti
(the beloved daughter of the Group President, Mr. Enzo Cunti, that passed
away a few months later at a very young age because of a cancer),
has looked the best one meeting the technical requirements we were looking
and asking for, so that after the positive evaluation of the responsibles of
the Group, we immediately started its achievement thanks to the cooperation
of the brothers Franco and Maria Ponticelli's tailorings.
The results (see picture left here), even if by
its sober simplicity, has been an excellent synthesis between the innovation
needed from the Group members, a certain kind of "inventiveness" to let the
costume distinguishable among the others and the total respect for the
traditional representation of the typical local wearing, as seen in the
hystorical paintings.
What coulda have we needed more...??
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