PERFORMANCE-WEAR

NOT creates site-specific and custom performance experiences by collaborating with musicians and dancers pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary performance.  

 

Trumpeter Riley Mulherkar dressed in NOT for the official video of 'Honey Man' from album 'Riley'.

Video still of trumpeter Riley Mulherkar new album 'Riley' for 'Honeyman' dressed in NOT by Jenny Lai

 

Bassoonist Rebekah Heller wears custom NOT at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater. Photo by T. Tairadate.

Rebekah Heller performing bassoon in orange and blue print jumpsuit

 

Flutist Claire Chase wears NOT at Carnegie Hall. Photo by Richard Termine.

Claire Chase wearing custom NOT black polo at Carnegie Hall

Flutist Claire Chase wears custom NOT with NY Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall. Photos by Chris Lee.

Flutist Claire Chase performs in yellow silk blouse by NOT

Claire Chase and Esperanza Spalding perform on stage with  NY Philharmonic

 

Del Sol Quartet performs Huang Ruo's Angel Island in custom NOT.

String quartet performs on stage

 

Percussionist Mike Truesdell wears NOT for a series of four music videos produced by four/ten media.

black and white portrait of percussionist mike truesdell sitting in front of xylophone in draped coat by NOT by Jenny Lai

 

Custom outfit for Claire Chase performing PAN with SF Symphony Soundbox. Photo by Kristen Loken.

Flutist Claire Chase crouches on stage with video projection behind her and multiple choir musicians in front.

 

Custom jacket for singer Davóne Tines with brooches by Coreen Simpson at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center.

Singer Davone Tines in black jacket with brooches performing at Lincoln Center 

"From Within": a collaboration with percussionist Mike Truesdell. Original composition for amplified shirt and electronics.

yes no duo jenny lai mike truesdell 

Custom wearable sculpture for bassoonist Rebekah Heller's performance of Felipe Lara's Metafagote. 

Bassoonist Rebekah Heller performs at Miller Theater March 2022

 

Classical guitarist Jiji performs in NOT Landscape Mesh Top. Photo by Robert Peterson.

Jiji performs guitar checkered top and black leather pants, photo by Robert Peterson

Cellist Seo Young Lee performs in custom NOT with Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera.

Germany-based Korean cellist Seo Young Lee stands with conductor of Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera 

Toy pianists and multimedia artists, Chromic Duo, are dressed in NOT. Photo by Liz Kiger.

Two musicians of Chromic Duo dressed in NOT with two toy pianos.

'Final Notice', an outdoor traveling dance tracing the floodplains of year 2100 by Danielle Russo Performance Project. Photo by Whitney Browne. 

Two dancers in head-to-toe orange jumpsuits on the streets of Williamsburg for Danielle Russo Performance Project 'Final Notice'.

 

Flutist Claire Chase performs in NOT for San Francisco Symphony Soundbox: Metamorphoses. Photo credit: San Francisco Symphony

Flutist Claire Chase performs in NOT's green denim jumpsuit for San Francisco Symphony's soundbox: Metamorphoses.

 

Violinist Audrey Wright and pianist Yundu Wang in NOT, album photography by Geoff Robertson

album photography of audrey wright and yundu wang

 

Pianist Eunbi Kim performs in Split Dolman Top at Korean Cultural Center New York.

pianist Eunbi Kim performs at korean cultural center

 

Conductor Yaniv Dinur in custom suit jacket by NOT.

conductor Yaniv Dinur in concert wearing custom jacket design by NOT by Jenny Lai

 

Violinist Hyeyung Yoon by photographer Shirley Yu.

Violinist Hyeyung Yoon portrait wearing white and print asymmetric jersey dress from NOT.

 

Flutist Claire Chase performs Liza Lim's Sex Magic for Density2036 at Queenslab.

Flutist Claire Chase performs Liza Lim's Sex Magic at Queenslab New York

 

Cellist Benjamin Lai performs in custom NOT. Artist's portrait by Jennifer Endom.

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Benjamin Lai Cello
Pianist Yaniv Dinur in concert.
yaniv dinur
Bass baritone singer Davóne Tines in NOT's Wrap Blazer at Wang Citi Bank Performing Arts Center in April 2019.
davone tines
Nouveau Classical Project styled in NOT for 'Currents' concert at Lincoln Center Atrium in December 2018.
nouveau classical project lincoln center currents
sugar vendil nouveau classical project
Costume design for 'Captum Biomorfe' performance unveiling furniture by Jonathan Hansen, directed by Shane Drake, and choreography by Elena Vazintaris in October 2018.
jonathan hansen captum biomorfe
Costume design for 'Masc' by Madboots Dance Company at Joyce Theatre in June 2018.
madboots dance company

 

Pianist/composer Conrad Tao collaborates with dancer/choreographer Caleb Teicher for a new piece premiering 2019. Photography by Em Watson and styled in NOT's Zipper Shirts.

caleb teicher conrad tao

 

Pianist Eunbi Kim's debut album release of new concert music by Fred Hersch. Photo by Kensey Jean.

Eunbi Kim Joe's Pub Fred Hersch

 

 

 

Danielle Russo Performance Project's 'Sentinel' featuring five dancers in site-specific locations from 2017-2018.

danielle russo sentinel jason collins

 

Elena Vazintaris directs dance fashion film 'Structured Transcendence" for Glassbook, featuring customized NOT tops.

Glassbook Elena Vazintaris Structured Transcendence NOT by Jenny Lai

  

Violinist Audrey Wright in custom NOT, photography by Geoffrey Robertson.

Audrey Wright violinist 

Violinist Leila Josefowicz performs at 2017 BBC PROMS 50. 

 

Percussionist Maria Finkelmeier performs at Open Senses UK Festival, with remixed videos and live improvisation.

Maria Finkelmeier Open Senses UK Festival

 

 

Site specific, audience interactive performance by Butoh artist Gyohei Zaitsu, conceptualized by NOT for Paris-based experimental concept store, The Community.

 

Shen Wei's 2016 'Neither' premiere for BAM, costume designs by Shen Wei, crafted by Jenny Lai.

 

Custom performancewear for Danielle Russo Performance Project's 'Salome', a site-specific dance/theatre piece performed in the belly of an empty swimming pool on Governor's Island.  

 

Violinist Leila Josefowicz wears NOT, performing with John Adams and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of Renske Vroklijk/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

 

Custom performance wear for Gallim Dance Company for the premiere of 'Fold Here' at the Guggenheim and Montclair University in September 2013

 

Custom velvet shirt for toy pianist and composer David Smooke.

 

Custom performance wear for Nouveau Classical Project for their "Sacred/Profane" concert where the garments unravel along with the progressively explosive program. 

 

Custom performance wear for percussionist Mike Truesdell's solo concert of electronics and marimba. 

 

Custom performance wear for Aynsley Van den Broucke's '35 1/2'  , premiered at The Chocolate Factory, New York in May 2013. 

 

A unitard and harness made up of dissected used pointe shoes, and 13-foot wide tutu apparatus for modern dancer Mary Ellen Beaudreau's solo piece 'Ballet Confessions' in May 2014.