The Swirling Neon

Chinese designer Stephanie Gu’s collection ‘The Swirling Neon’ is a celebration of dancing bodies that eager to connect with one another amidst conflict. Based on the Steve Paxton’s contact Improvisation theory, the collection explores intuitive connections in motion, the process of attracting and pulling. Resulting in ambivalent attachment. With unusual prosthetic extensions, the collection auxiliary bodies by pushing the boundary of feel. With dancers’ kinaesthetic senses in motion being challenged, the swirling neon provide a new way of exchanging momentum, energy and emotions through dance, trigger dressed bodies to dance in a new way, in a soft yet strange habitat.