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Sandra Woodall
Working in collaboration with diverse
figures of the performing arts world, Sandra Woodall has designed
costumes for companies such as: San Francisco Ballet, Frankfurt
Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company,
Stuttgart Ballet, the Kronos Quartet, Singapore Ballet Theatre
and Magic Theater. Current projects include Don Giovanni for
the National Symphony of Taiwan, and Cinderella, which will
be choreographed by Val Caniparoli for the Royal Winnepeg
Ballet. Sandra has also designed sets and costumes for Full
Grown Man at Hubbard Street Dance Theatre, The Shadow at Houston
Ballet, and costumes for A Doll's House at the American Conservatory
Theatre. Other recent works include Mlada, a staged concert
performed by San Francisco Symphony under the guidance of
Michael Tilson Tomas, San Francisco Ballet's Chilin choreography
by Helgi Tomasson, Death of a Moth choreographed by Val Caniparoli,
Washington Ballet’s evening-length performance, The
Jazz/Blues Project, with choreography by Val Caniparoli, Trey
McIntyre and Lila York; and for Stuttgart Ballet’s The
Difference between Naked and Nude choreographed by Trey McIntyre.
Sandra was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan
in 1999-2000, during her residency she taught at the National
Institute of Arts in Taipei; designed costumes for Shangri-La
for the Performance Workshop; and worked as a visual collaborator
on the 8-hour original production, Dream Like a Dream, written
and directed by Stan Lai. She has also designed sets and costumes
for Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena, Slow, and Ciao Marcello
for San Francisco Ballet, Kirk Peterson’s The American
Nutcracker for Hartford Ballet, and Robert Sund’s Midsummer
Night's Dream for the national theatre of Norway, Den Norske
Opera. Other design credits include Brenda Way’s Investigating
Grace for ODC/SF Dance Company, Eureka Theater's original
production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, The Duchess
of Malfi directed by Robert Woodruff for American Conservatory
Theater, and The Gates for Margaret Jenkins Dance Company.
She is also well known for her art
work, which has also been shown in numerous gallery exhibitions.
They include The Shadow Garments, American Cultural Center,
Taipei, Taiwan in 1999; Designs for Dance, an exhibition in
honour of San Francisco Ballet’s 65th Anniversary Season,
SF PALM Gallery in 1998; and Making Magic: Sandra Woodall
Designs for the Hartford Ballet, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
in 1997.
In 1999 Sandra received the DANCE Bay
Area's Isadora Duncan Award for costumes, for Lines Contemporary
Ballet’s Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner, 1997 for
Smuin Ballet’s Frankie and Johnny, in 1996 for SFB’s
Lambarena, in 1991 for Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s
Age of Unrest, and in 1989 received the award for Sustained
Achievement in Design. She is also the recipient of numerous
Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards in Costume Design.
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