On The Cutting Edge of Yesterday

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

SALLY ANN PARSONS (TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.) has owned and operated Parsons-Meares Ltd., a full service costume shop, since 1980. Broadway shows for which costumes have been created include: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Will Rogers Follies, Guys and Dolls, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wicked. Film and televison work includes: Fame, Far From Heaven, Bram Stoker´s Dracula, The Cotton Club and Captain Eo and the Space Knights with Michael Jackson. Ballet company clients include: The Joffery Ballet, Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, ABT, Alvin Ailey, Houston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Spectacle and circus costumes have been created for Bette Midler´s The Showgirl Must Go On, Siegfeid and Roy, Disney Ice Shows, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, Walt Disney Theme Parks and Busch Gardens. A member of the United Scenic Artists Guild 829, Sally Ann´s design work has included the Joffrey Ballet and much of the downtown dance world.