Body Spectra 2012

CityVarsity's BodySpectra 2012 was the hottest event of the year! 

 

 An electrifying spectacular at the 13th annual BodySpectra show

Presented by the very capable - and just a little bit camp - Mark Hoeben

The Motion Picture Make-Up and Production Design students participated in this glitzy evening

 At Trinity Club - 15 Bennett Street, Green Point

 The brief - to create a human canvas using body paint, prosthetics and props

 On the theme of 'Metamorphosis'

So that human bodies were turned into living works of art

47 competing students and their models

 

Amazing and imaginative concepts

Transformation into something rich and strange

A magical and hotly contested event

350 tickets sold in aid of the Amy Biehl Foundation

The final evaluation of the multi-talented Make-up and Design students 

 This year’s funds, raised through ticket sales, donated to the Amy Biehl Foundation, which emphasises the upliftment of children from disadvantaged backgrounds through the arts

 
 Inspiration drawn from a variety of insects, animals and fantasy creatures

Some super-sexy

Some scary

Other's Carnivalesque

Some straight out of the bar in Star Wars...

Terrifying death's head femme fatale

Outer space oddity

Scary Zombie

Lady Death

Another Dark Lady

A ray of sunshine in a scarlet Geisha Girl

Metamorphosing into a Cherry Tree

Tiger Lily Lady

With shimmering irridescent rainbow-painted skin

Blossoming Tree Lady

 

  Incredible Harlequin

The works had taken up to 12 hours to create

Pretty Flower Lady - a mixture of body-painting and costume

Stunning Sea Creature

Disturbing Doppelganger

Tropical Bird Woman

Flights of fancy on  gilded wings

Incredible sea-horse transformed by stage lighting

Fascinating and horrifying

Mutant creatures strutted their stuff

Elemental Spirit

Bunny Girl

 Amazing Bird Man - Could he be the winner?