MEG STUART / INFLAMÁVEL

Costumes / Design & Production / Client: Damaged Goods

A fleeting spectacle that reveals its own cracks.

I approached the costumes for Inflamável as an extension of a staged spectacle, rooted in the atmosphere of a circus, filtered through the language of contemporary dance.
From the beginning, I was drawn to elements that carry both fascination and fragility. I introduced stilts, motorcycle helmets, fragments of étoile tutus, and references to fireworks. Each piece holds a tension linking elevation and collapse, display and exposure.
The silhouettes suggest celebration, brilliance, and attraction, yet they also reveal something more unstable. There is a sense of imbalance, something slightly off. Grandeur coexists with awkwardness. Intensity can suddenly slip into something more fragile, even disappointing.
I was interested in this shifting space. Bodies appear almost heroic, then suddenly vulnerable again. The costumes move from spectacle to erosion, from the desire to shine to the inevitability of fading.
For me, Inflamável became a place in which flamboyance meets its own limits, the promise of wonder always accompanied by the risk of collapse.