![]() The championship game sees the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals on the field at SoFi stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday. It’s been a long time and I’m so happy that we can be here together enjoying concerts because I didn’t know if we’d ever be able to do it again and I’m so happy,” the singer said. “Something happens when you tour your a– off, you just walk on stage like, ‘Can’t even tell me nothing. The songwriter told the crowd that a lot of life events kept her from the stage and she was extremely nervous to return after the pandemic. Credit: Ronin 47 / London Entertainment / We at Halsey Onstage love the neighborhood and all the residents who peek in the windows to see what we are working on next.Halsey at the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Festival in black ruffled dress and combat boots on February 10, 2022. “Most people don’t even know there are businesses like ours nestled in Edgewater, or even Chicago. ![]() “It was incredible to see Mother Ginger come together, as well as the disciplines of science and art,” she added. “Her eyebrows, eyes, and bottom lip all move independently or at the same time,” Coyle said. He also learned how to wire Mother Ginger so that the puppet could have remote-controlled facial features. She then painted the hands and facial features. Marsh printed 3-D hands and facial features based off of Coyle’s sculpture. ![]() She added that she and Halsey particularly enjoy Marsh’s 3-D printing technology. Travis and I go to him almost every week with ideas for different projects, whether large or small, and he makes them happen.” “What then makes this puppet so great is the work I did with Stuart (Marsh) at Edgewater Workbench,” Coyle said. She then airbrush-painted Mother Ginger’s head. She and her team made a few extra heads just in case, she said. She then vacuuformed a plastic shell, which meant essentially melting a sheet of plastic over the cast. To create the puppet’s head, she first sculpted her face out of clay and made a plaster cast. Along with Travis and I, we had a few sewers help us get the giant dress and bodice sewn together.”Ĭoyle, who has a fine arts background, took the reigns for all the craftwork and beading of Mother Ginger. “The dress is large enough to comfortably fit about eight children underneath her skirt. “The dancer then has his hands free to move her arms with poles, and press buttons on one of the poles to move her facial features,” Coyle said. She said Mother Ginger is a giant dress over a structure Halsey Onstage created to sit on top of a dancer’s shoulders. He is the one who did all the math, patterning this giant puppet.” ![]() “I have learned so much from him, and he is an incredible asset to the costuming world. “To say he is brilliant at what he does is an understatement,” Coyle said. Yet it also creates costumes for television and film, “so every day is different and exciting in our workplace.”Ĭoyle has been studying under costume designer and Halsey Onstage owner Travis Halsey since 2013. Its specialty is ballet and, more specifically, tutus. “I was lucky enough to be taught last spring by a tambour beading master named Robert Haven.”Īs the only independent costume shop in Chicago, Halsey Onstage creates costumes for a huge variety of disciplines, she said. “Tambour beading is a rare skill today that originated in France,” Coyle said. Mother Ginger was designed by Holly Hynes, who also redesigned an entirely new production for the Kansas City Ballet. ![]() “The project began this summer when I started tambour beading a decorative beaded and sequined piece for Mother Ginger’s bodice and I made a matching headpiece as well,” said Rachel Coyle, who works for Halsey Onstage. Thorndale Ave., and Edgewater Workbench, 1130 W. That iteration of Mother Ginger is the result of a collaboration between two Edgewater businesses - Halsey Onstage, 1210 W. And in the Kansas City Ballet’s version of the famous musical, she’s tall, sports a decorative beaded and sequined bodice, and wears a dress large enough to hide eight children. Fans of “The Nutcracker” know her as Mother Ginger, one of many characters in the Land of Sweets. ![]()
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