Mathew Frain For Richmond Ballet

Photographs by Sarah Ferguson

Set to Phillip Glass' Piano Etudes, this piece is a meditation on our current social, political, and economic climate.  The choreographer was interested in tuxedoes, so I worked to create a male and female version that would convey "Tuxedo," while giving him the playfulness, elegance, absurdity, and brutality he needed from the dancers throughout the piece. My inspiration for the work was to portray the dancers as Robber-Barons, or the poor who rather see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires."