Instruments of Embodiment - Costuming in Contemporary Dance

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Eric Mullis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367644819
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64481-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, DESIGN / General, DESIGN / Book, ART / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, DESIGN / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, DESIGN / Essays, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Folk, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Reference, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Popular, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Jazz, Fashion & society, Philosophy: aesthetics, Contemporary Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Ballroom, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Tap, Cultural studies: dress and society