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Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance

Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance

Mullis, Eric

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

PhilosophyDanceTheater History

ISBN10: 0367644819
ISBN13: 9780367644819
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 16 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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