Performance Costume (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives and Methods
Redaktion: Pantouvaki, Sofia; Mcneil, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways with theories of the body and embodiment, design practices, artistic and other forms of collaboration. Costume, like fashion and dress, is now viewed as an area of dynamic social significance and not simply as passive reflector of a pre-conceived social state or practice. This book offers new approaches to the study of costume, as well as fresh insights into the better-understood frames of historical, theoretical, practice-based and archival research into costume for performance.

This anthology draws on the experience of a global group of established researchers as well as emerging voices. Below is a list of just some of the things it achieves:

1. Introduces diverse perspectives, innovative new research methods and approaches for researching design and the costumed body in performance.
2. Contributes towards a new understanding of how costume actually 'performs' in time and space.
3. Offers new insights into existing practices, as well as creating a space of connection between practitioners and researchers from design, the humanities and social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350098817
• Artikelnr.: 60542620

Autorenporträt

Sofia Pantouvaki is Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film at Aalto University, Finland. Her scenography and costume design credits include 80 theatre, film, opera and dance productions in major European venues. She is Principal Investigator of the Costume Methodologies research project; Vice-Head for Research, OISTAT Costume and Co-Convener, Critical Costume and IFTR Scenography. Recent works include Tribes - A Walking Exhibition (with Sodja Lotker, 2017) and Dress in Auschwitz (2021). Peter McNeil FAHA is Distinguished Professor of Design History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and was formerly Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, Finland. His monograph 'Pretty Gentlemen': Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword - Maija Pekkanen (Costume
Designer, Finland) Foreword - Simona Rybáková (Costume Designer, Czech
Republic) Acknowledgements Introduction: Activating Costume: A New Approach
to Costume for Performance - Sofia Pantouvaki (Aalto University, Finland)
and Peter McNeil (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Section 1:
Interpreting and Curating Costume 1.1 Real or Virtual?: Studying Historical
Costume Drawings and Sketches - Margaret Mitchell (University of the
Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, USA) 1.2 Cooking: Studying Film
Costume Design - Drake Stutesman (Barrymore Film Center, Fort Lee, USA) 1.3
Displaying Stage Costumes: Exhibitions at the National Centre for Stage
Costume, France - Delphine Pinasa (Centre National de Costume de Scène,
France) Snapshots 1.4. Cross Cultural Costume Research: Beijing Opera
Costumes - Alexandra B. Bonds (University of Oregon, USA) 1.5. Reading
Maltese Carnival Costumes - Vicki Ann Cremona (University of Malta) 1.6.
Curating Costume - Reflection - Aoife Monks (Queen Mary, University of
London, UK) Section 2: Personalities in Costume 2.1. Costume Centre Stage:
Re-Membering Ellen Terry (1847-1928) - Veronica Isaac (university lecturer
and freelance consultant, UK) 2.2. 'On and Off the Stage': Costume, Dress,
and Locating the Actor-Manager's Identity, 1870-1900 - Helen Margaret
Walter (Plymouth University and the University for the Creative Arts,
Epsom, UK) 2.3. Extravagance, Expense and Notoriety: Gaby Deslys' French
Costumes in America, 1911-14 - Emily Brayshaw (University of Technology
Sydney (UTS), Australia) Snapshots 2.4. A Foreign Affair On and Off Screen
- Christina M. Johnson (FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design &
Merchandising, Los Angeles, USA) 2.5. Recording Costume Design in the
Theatre and Performance Collections at the V&A: Vivien Leigh and Oliver
Messel - Keith Lodwick (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) Section 3: Costume
Voices, Costume Histories 3.1. The First Premiere and Other Stories:
Towards a History of the Costume Design Profession in Finland - Joanna
Weckman (independent post-doctoral costume researcher, exhibition curator,
lecturer and costume designer, Finland) 3.2. Spinning Yarns: Locating,
Learning and Listening in the Social World of Popular Hindi Film Costume
Production - Clare M. Wilkinson (Washington State University, USA)
Snapshots 3.3. Hollywood Costume: A Journey to Curation - Deborah Nadoolman
Landis (UCLA David C. Copley Center for Costume Design, USA) 3.4. 'The
Getting of Wisdom': Learning from Anna Senior - Jennifer Gall (National
Film and Sound Archive of Australia) 3.5. Design for TV: Costume and
Contemporary Clothing - Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko (costume designer in
theatre, film and television, USA) Section 4: Costume and the Body 4.1. The
Body as the Matter of Costume: a Phenomenological Practice - Donatella
Barbieri (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK)
4.2. The Body as Site: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dress in/as
Performance - Jessica Bugg (London College of Fashion, University of the
Arts London, UK) 4.3. 'Aware Wearing' - a Somatic Costume Design
Methodology for Performance - Sally E. Dean (interdisciplinary
choreographer, performer, teacher and somatic practitioner, Europe, Asia
and USA) Snapshots 4.4. Costuming the Foot: a Designer/Performer's Personal
Artistic Methods - Alexandra Murray-Leslie (artist, researcher, performer
and co-founder of the international art collective Chicks on Speed,
Australia) 4.5. Costume and the Modernist Body: Fashioning August
Strindberg - Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Section 5:
Costume and its Collaborative Work 5.1. Building Costumes, Building
Language in the Costume Workshop - Madeline Taylor (Queensland University
of Technology and University of Melbourne, Australia) 5.2. Fitting Threads:
Embodied Conversations in the Costume Design Process - Suzanne Osmond
(National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia) Snapshots 5.3.
Haptic Descriptions - Costume Design by Gillian Gallow and April Viczko -
Natalie Rewa (Queen's University, Canada) 5.4. The Costume Designer¿s
'Golden List' of Competence - Christina Lindgren (Oslo National Academy of
the Arts (KHiO), Norway) Section 6: Costume and Social Impact 6.1.
Exploring Rossini's Berta: Young Audiences and the Agency of Opera Costume
- Sofia Pantouvaki (Aalto University, Finland) 6.2. Designing Hospital
Clown Costumes: Psychological and Social Benefits for Finnish Children's
Healthcare - Merja Väisänen (Aalto University, Finland) 6.3. Costume of
Conflict - Mateja Fajt (independent costume designer and researcher,
Slovenia) Snapshots 6.4. From Effect to Affect: the Costumed Body and the
Autistic Child - Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK) 6.5.
'Designing Tsunami': Costume Evolution from Documentary to Surrealist -
Michiko Kitayama Skinner (University of Miami, USA) 6.6. The Collaborative
Process of Costume Creation: Travesties in São Paulo - Fausto Viana (São
Paulo University (USP), Brazil)