Dancing with the Stars – Making a Dancing Donkey
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For any of you that have been a part of either makeup or hair teams for the show “Dancing with the Stars”, you know that since this is a “completely live show”, everything from the prep, to the show day, to the happenings backstage and in the trailers…..it is a whirlwind. And this year was no different.
A couple of weeks out from Disney week, Zena Green, the Dept Head of Makeup and Julie Socash contacted me about some upcoming direction for a couple of the dancers for that show. The main focus for me would be the team of Alan Bersten and Ilona Maher. They would be dancing to “Surface Pressure from Encanto. Angela Moos would be handling Ilona. Turning Alan into a Donkey was for Me.
For this makeup task, I estimated that with a second person for application and possibly a third to help with hands, we should be able to do it in approx. 90 minutes, and then he could move over to Kimi Messina’s hair dept.
For this live show, obviously the dancers will be rehearsing, rehearsing, dancing, dancing….and sweating. During the application we would ‘usually’ take the time to prep the skin and adhere the prosthetics so that the opportunity for the makeup to fail is reduced as much as foreseeable. Heat and sweat are always our nemesis.
(…..to be continued in next post.)
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