BROOKE SAUVAGE IS

a writer, a costume designer, and a character based in New Orleans. She works for the Marigny Opera Ballet, has produced pieces for Vice, and has assisted in the production of Music Box houses in collaboration with
New Orleans Airlift.

All the world’s a stage, and men merely players
SHAKESPEARE - AS YOU LIKE IT

I can't be a singular expression of myself, there's too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many
SOLANGE - CAN I HOLD THE MIC

When people hear my music they hear a fragment of time, something I feel or felt right then. By the time it gets to your ears I may have grown past it, but I am truest to who I am at that very second. That can be five thousand different colors and shades at the same time.
MILEY CYRUS’ PERSONAL MEMO TO THE WORLD

The practice of costuming reflects the reality that we are so many people at once. That we could present ourselves in so many looks, in so many guises, as so many facets erodes the distance between me and you, the chasm that divides and disempowers us as oppositional forces. Thus we demonstrate the mutability of self. If we contain so many characters within ourselves alone, then we are much closer to the Other than we think.

We are taught to conceptualize an inherently incomprehensible world through a series of opposites: light vs. dark, good vs. evil, me vs. you. In my work, I establish opposites, revel in their electric juxtaposition, and reimagine them in a way that winks at humanity’s vivid spectrum of possibility.

EXPERIENCE

MARIGNY OPERA HOUSE • Wardrobe Mistress • August 2017 to present
Follies 1915, November 2018
Gisele, March 2018
Costume Designer, Silk and Smoke, Jazz Ballet Program, January 2018
Diversorios, Christmas Cocktails, December 2017
Book of Saints, October 2017

TELEVISION/FILM • Seamstress
CBS "NCIS: New Orleans" Season 4
AMC Original Series "Preacher" Season 3
"Alienated" Dir. Sandy Parker (2018)

CAROUSEL ARTIST COLLECTIVE •
Member of artist-run collective and store since August 2017 in New Orleans
Retail experiments on Frenchmen Street and on St. Claude Avenue
Assisted in event production including MARDI GRAS WISH MACHINE, FROTHPOCALYPSE, and BARBIE'S INFERNO

KREWE DE JEANNE D'ARC • Wardrobe Assistant

PROJECTS

SATELLITE ART FAIR - MIAMI ART BASEL • debuted collection ELEMENTAL as part of Satellite Art Fair, featuring nine gowns exploring variation of ruffles • December 2018

DARK MATER, DARK MOTHER • created custom cape for theater performance involving light projection as part of the Mudlark Vanishing Festival • November 2018

SUBLETTER’S OMEN • created custom cat costume for 8-foot tall puppet frame for sold-out theater performance, Subletter’s Omen, as well as haunted house installation Bourbon Street Hellscape • October 2018

FEMAISSANCE: PROSERPINA • gown featured in all-femme gallery show as part of Art for Art’s Sake investigating the myth of Proserpina in post-#MeToo world • October 2018

SILK + SMOKE • designed costumes for Gretchen Erickson’s jazz ballet for Marigny Opera Ballet • January 2018

TINTINNABULATION STATION • restored Angelina Polacheck's musical house at the Music Box Village • September 2017

SWAMPOCALYPSE, FROTHPOCALYPSE • a conceptual collection of wearable art debuted in narrative fashion show • raised $1,000 for local non-profit, Dark Roots • April 2017, 2018

"THAT'S THE ONE" - NICK + DAN FT. HASIZZLE • designed dancewear for bounce dancers in music video produced by Huemid Haus • October 2017

BOYFRIEND / BIG FREEDIA BOUNCE SHAKEDOWN TOUR • produced four stage garments in advance of Boyfriend on national tour with Big Freedia • October 2015

EDUCATION

TULANE UNIVERSITY Class of 2013
B.A. English + French • summa cum laude
Honors Thesis: Talking Cats in the Time of Globalization: Haruki Murakami and Magical Realism
Louis Bush Medal Prize • Japan-Tulane Friendship Award

sauvagebrooke@gmail.com