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.

BROOKE SAUVAGE is a seamstress, a writer, and a character based in New Orleans, last great Bohemia, riverside city of dreams, surrealist outpost on the edge of the world. She works in costume design as a way of casting characters on the stage of life, taking a jack knife to supposedly objective reality through means subtle and sparkly.

Mardi Gras is her ultimate muse: Fat Tuesday prevails along a tacit agreement that all show up in costumes befitting an alternate dimension. In turn we are granted a starry-eyed, city-wide suspension of reality, just for one day. That the fabric of reality could be altered by something as simple as the clothes that we wear is astounding in a world ruled by ‘yes’ and ‘no.’

We are taught to conceptualize an inherently incomprehensible world through a series of opposites: light and dark, good and evil, me and you. Our predisposition towards binary thinking has stunted our evolution as a species. 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