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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.
List of contents
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
Part 3: The insubordinate here and now 5. 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
