Hedwig & the Angry Inch - Design Research

Class: Designing for Live Performance

Instructor: Andrew Lazarow

Team: Mingna, Nick Zhang, Matt Ross, Son Luu

One sentence, Complex Sentence & Three Sentences Exercise as a Team

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a story about freedom.

2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a story about freedom of identity and from identity.

3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a about freedom. It tells the story of Hedwig's physically challenging and emotionally charged journey to find freedom of identity and from identity. That journey represents a celebration of self-love and how persistence leads to triumph.

Visuals Research

We posted a lot of visuals research based on the following themes:

1. Vapor wave - 80's music remixed

2. Greek art/illustration/sculptural art - Hedwig's belief in the Greek philosophy of the origin of love.

3. Gummies/candies - desire, love

4. Champaign tower - celebration

5. 90's Rock n' roll - anger, theme music, emotional relief, passion, freedom

6. Colorful graphic- freedom

7. Optical Illusion - identity

8. 90's NYC/cityscape

9. Brutalism - truthful, bluntness

10. Gritty

11. Collage/cubism/Picasso art

12. Surrealism

Below is the Are.na link to check out entire collection of visuals research:

https://www.are.na/matt-ross-i1xkattrv3c/designing-for-live-performance-midterm

Here are some of examples:

Surrealism

NYC in the 90's

Rock 'n Roll

Colors, Candies

Greek Art