Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai by Ksenia Zagaynova

Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai by Ksenia Zagaynova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Pāratinamu in Hoahoa Whakakai Competition Category.

PāratinamuWhakakai· 2020

Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai

by Ksenia Zagaynova

Client: Xenia Gai

A' Design Award Pāratinamu Winner in Whakakai Category

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The Design

About Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai

Ko Dance Anatomy he kohinga whakapaipai i whakaaweawetia e te kanikani o nāianei. Ko ngā taonga e toru, i hangaia ki ngā tae e rua, ka whakamāori anō i te tinana o te tangata mā ngā rārangi me ngā āhua koiora-hangarau. I āta rangahaua ngā tūranga kanikani pūmau, ā, i whakawhitia te whakamātātanga o ngā uaua, te whakangāwaritanga me te toronga hei reo whakairoiro māmā. Ka tāia ngā āhua mā te tā 3D ki te nailona, e ngāwari ai ngā taonga, e kaha ai hoki ki te ārai i te pakaru. E taea ana ētahi e rua o ngā taonga e toru te mau hei whakakai, hei heitiki rānei, nā te mea ka taea te whakakapi i te waea taringa hiriwa ki te aho, ki te mekameka rānei.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Pāratinamu

Ko Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai te toa o te A' Design Award Pāratinamu, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa tino rerekē, ātaahua me te nui. Ko ngā toa Pāratinamu he whakamīharo o te waihanga, he taunakitanga mō ngā rohe o te auaha hinengaro, ā, e whakaatu ana i te tohungatanga me te mōhio kāore e taea te whakataurite o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko ēnei hoahoa ngā mahi rongonui rawa e whakatau ana i te ātaahua o tētahi wā, e whai wāhi ana ki te oranga o te hapori, ā, e whakawhānui ana i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ka whakaatu a Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai i te taumata tōtika o te hiranga, ā, e pai ake ai te ao i ōna āhuatanga whaihua. Ko Dance Anatomy Kohinga Whakapaipai tētahi mahi i toa i te A' Design Award Pāratinamu e whakaoho ana i ngā hiahia, e whakahihiri ana, e whakamārie ana, ā, e kawe mai ana i te hari nui.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Dance Anatomy collection represents a reinterpretation of the human body. The lines and shapes look bionic and could remind any other organic creatures. They are 3D-printed in nylon which makes them flexible and damage-resistant. 2 objects can be worn as earrings or pendants after simple replacement of the earwire with a lace or chain.
Dimensions & Packaging: Object 1: H - 10 cm W - 5 cm D - 1.5 cm
Object 2: H - 10 cm W - 4.3 cm D - 1.5 cm
Object 3: H - 4 cm W - 7.2 cm D - 1.5 cm
Tags: jewelry, design, pendants, earrings, rings, dance
Production Technology: 3D-modelling, 3D printing in nylon (polyamide). Silver earwire, textile lace.
The design was visualized in Rhinoceros, using Tsplines plugin.
Design Challenge: The hardest part of the research lied in the detection of the right principle that would allow transferring a dancer position into graphic language. The author studied different aspects of dancing, namely the geometry of different dance positions, the cinesphere of a dancing person but these principles did not lead to a necessary esthetic result. In the end the research of the muscles behavior allowed to achieve the right result.
Secondly, it was hard to create the 3D models of the objects as they consist of many lines that could not intersect.
Research: The objective of the research was to analyze the processes occurring in the body of a dancer and to choose a principle that would allow translating them into graphic language and into real objects. The designer took pictures of dancers in captured dance positions and analyzed muscle tension and stretching in different parts of their bodies. In order to detect the state of muscles the author consulted the anatomy book and a former dancer. The designer used a solid color for those muscles that were keeping balance and were the most tense, the waved lines - for muscles being more relaxed and straight lines - in order to show the stretched parts.
Inspiration: The Dance Anatomy collection was inspired by contemporary dance. In this work I studied the fixed positions of dancers and the processes existing in their bodies. For example, some muscles are tense and some are relaxed, others are stretched. I have translated these processes into the simplified graphic language and came up with the forms and silhouettes that further became wearable objects (earrings, pendants, rings).
Project Duration: The project started in April 2019 in Moscow and finished in the end of June 2019 in Moscow. It was exhibited in Zveno jewelry shop and gallery.
Operation Flow: There are 3 objects in this collection, represented in 2 colors. The 2 of 3 can be worn as earrings or pendants. The leather lace or silver ear fixture can be easily inserted and removed when needed.