John Lee Beatty's abstract, vaguely Deco-ish set and Gail Baldoni's generically chic costumes help establish the show's mood of fun and retro elegance.
The studio, divided into different dance arenas, has color-coded tarp to match the many chic costumes (by Roxana Ramseur, Russell Aubrey and Eli McAfee).
Skateboard dollies, claymation, sock puppets, and thrift store chic costumes were their bread-and-butter as they shot masterpieces like Scabface, Senior Citizen Kane, and Eyes Wide Butt, many of which are complete short parodies of the films that inspired them.
Kevin Wynn contributed to the choreography, and the trashy-chic costumes are by the Steeles.
But "duck" worked as authoritative, anarchic dance, helped by the well-edited sounds and rollicking score by Kotaro Hamatani; the bright, clear uncredited lighting; and Ms. Yamanaka's crumpled-chic costumes.
The cast gives charged, cohesive performances, and the staging is expert, with Tom Lee's aptly shabby found-objects set; Frederico Restrepo's inventive lighting; Theresa Linnihan's wry, Weill-influenced songs (hey, why shouldn't a rabbi do the 23rd Psalm as a blues number?); and Michelle Beshaw's Depression-chic costumes.
In Liz Prince's chic everyday costumes, Monnette Bariel, Julius Brewster Jr., Queala Clancy, Daniel Marshall and Veronica Moorhead evoke a contemporary crowd, sometimes curious, sometimes supportive.
It isn't even the most sensationalist, despite its row of flames at the back of the stage (apparently we're in an oven), its chic red costumes, its women on point crossing the stage in series of single pirouettes and its bare-chested men doing multiple pirouettes on the spot.
(She carries the chic of the costume designer Michael Krass's fabulous period styles effortlessly).
Dressed in grunge chic by the costume designer Michael Krass -- Mr. Martinez's green boxer briefs would no doubt receive a Red Carpet thumbs-up -- these four scrappers invoke America's pop culture icons.
