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EDUCATION/CULTURE--COSTUME EXHIBITION ----------------------------------------------------------------- Linda Moore, artistic director, Neptune Theatre, will open the new exhibition at the Mary E. Black Gallery today. The exhibition entitled The Myth and Magic in Costuming for the Stage is curated by Robert Doyle and runs until November 2, 1996. Magnificent costumes loaned by the Stratford Festival, the National Ballet of Canada, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Dalhousie Theatre Department and Neptune Theatre and used in such plays as Tartuffe, National Arts Centre, 1982; A Midsummer Nights Dream, Stratford, 1977 and Dalhousie's production of The Lucky Chance, 1994, will be on display. In some cases Robert Doyle has obtained costumes designed for the same play but by different designers illustrating how differences in interpretation of the play influence costume design. It is a fitting exhibition for the N.S. Centre for Craft and Design, showing how a design and the craft of executing the design work together when costuming for the theatre. One section of the show deals with how to design costumes for dancers. "Costumes must fit like a second skin", said Mr. Doyle. "So that in performance the dancer and their costume will react as one." A ballet shoe cut in half will reveal its inner structure and provide some understanding of how the ballerina can raise herself up on her toes to perform the steps known as bourrees. The show's curator, is an acclaimed designer whose credits include works for National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, St. Lawrence Centre, National Ballet of Canada, Neptune Theatre and the Nova Scotia International Tattoo. Mr. Doyle is also a faculty member of the Dalhousie Theatre Department, Costume Studies. The Mary E. Black Gallery is located in the N.S. Centre for Craft and Design, 1683 Barrington Street, Halifax. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. -30- Contact: Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design 902-424-4062 trp Sept. 19, 1996 - 10:30 a.m.