Instruments of Embodiment

Costuming in Contemporary Dance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-64481-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.

It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of contemporary dance costuming, Merce Cunningham’s innovative collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg, and costumes used in Ohad Naharin’s Virus (2001) and in a ground-breaking Butoh solo by Tatsumi Hijikata. The relationship between dance costuming and high fashion, wearable computing, and the role costume plays in dance reconstruction are also discussed and, along the way, an anarchist materialism is articulated which takes an egalitarian view of artistic collaboration and holds that experimental costume designs facilitate new forms of embodied experience and ways of seeing the body.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars working in performance philosophy, philosophy of embodiment, dance and performance studies, and fashion theory.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mullis, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Allgemeines & Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Buchgestaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Choreographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Media of Touch

Chapter 3: Anarchist Experiments

Chapter 4: Your First Costume

Chapter 5: Modern Designs and Modern Networks

Chapter 6: Dancers in High Fashion

Chapter 7: Digital Costuming

Chapter 8: Stepping into the Past

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eric C. Mullis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte, USA. He has published essays on somaesthetics, dance technology, and dance ethics, as well as the book, Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South (2019).