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Costume in Performance - Materiality, Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
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Costume in Performance - Materiality, Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
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Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication
Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book
conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding
associations between contemporary practices and historical
manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters,
examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as
reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the
female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in
motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material
costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and
reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed
performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to
modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist
dance, from the 'fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare,
marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the
relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and
acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric
perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both
geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to
question the extent to which the material costume actually
co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories,
states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to
life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution
by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK
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