Each year as part of the Live Arts Festival, Dance/USA Philadelphia hosts the Rocky Awards, which honor outstanding achievement in Greater Philadelphia's dance community.

Seven awards are granted to their respective recipients as selected by a peer who was a recipient of the award the previous year. This year I was commissioned by choreographer and dancer Gabrielle Revlock, a 2010 Rocky recipient, to make the physical awards. The foundation of the design came through the found object of antique shoe lasts (molds). I came across a selection of the wooden forms, all having very distinctively different foot shapes.

I found it puzzling to imagine that our feet are really that different from one another. Are our feet really as uniquely individual as these wooden molds imply?

Let's see what you think. Can you identify which foot belongs to which office member? (Great idea, Matthew!). Match the guys to their feet. Answers follow. Don't peek!

******A*************B*************C************D******

And the answers are (the guys L-R)…

MATTHEW: B
DREW: D
JUSTIN: A
JASON: C

Wasn't that easy, right?

Choose your prize carefully from the selection below. These are the actual awards, the same shoe lasts as above, which I refinished, painted metallic gold, and laser-cut into the wood the text “you dance nice.”

(Don’t worry, these only smell like Minwax)

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I love these awards. So Cinderella.