Insubordinate Costume

Inspiring Performance
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-37598-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume – the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as costume, set and performance.

This book provides readers with an overview of the costumes, designers, context and theory that have contributed to the emerging field of ‘costume as performance’. Focusing on artists and their creative approach to space, form, materials and movement, the book looks at iconic figures such as Loïe Fuller, Oskar Schlemmer and Leigh Bowery, amongst contemporary examples of practitioners that are blurring disciplinary boundaries between fashion, dance, performance and theatre. The book includes chapters by Dr Sofia Pantouvaki, who focuses on performance costume as a means of research; Christina Lindgren, who presents the findings of the four-year Costume Agency project at Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway; Charlotte Østergaard, who discusses the implications of 'Listening with costume' and Felix Choong, writing on 'Contemporary Runways, Contemporary Costumes'. The final part of the volume, 'The Practitioners’ Voice', examines current practice through interviews and contributions from key practitioners with an afterword by Dr Rachel Hann.

Insubordinate Costume will appeal to professional costume designers, performance artists, dancers, directors, choreographers, fashion designers and theorists, teachers and students of these subjects. With its interdisciplinary focus and unique and dynamic content, this publication is relevant to a range of art, design and performance courses.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Insubordinate Beginnings  1. Insubordinate Beginnings  2. Dance, Performance Art and Insubordinate Costume  Part 2: Blurring the boundaries between theatre, dance, performance art and fashion  3. Blurring the boundaries between theatre, dance, performance art and fashion  4. Contemporary Runways, Contemporary Costumes  Part 3: The insubordinate here and now  5. The insubordinate here and now  6. On creating costume generated performances  7. Listening with costume – a material-discursive practice  8. Researching with and through Costume: Proposition for a Research Framework  Part 4: The practitioners’ voice The practitioners’ voice – edited interviews and contributions

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Marshall is a costume designer, adjunct professor of Twentieth Century Fashion at FIT in Milan, Politecnico di Milano and lecturer in costume design at AFOL Moda Milan. Insubordinate Costume is based on her doctoral research at Goldsmiths University of London, which explored the pivotal role of costume in performance and the fundamental importance of play in the performers’ creative approach to the costumes.