Instruments of Embodiment
eBook - ePub

Instruments of Embodiment

Costuming in Contemporary Dance

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Instruments of Embodiment

Costuming in Contemporary Dance

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Instruments of Embodiment by Eric Mullis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Fashion Design. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367644819
eBook ISBN
9781000809930

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Media of Touch
  11. 3 Anarchist Experiments
  12. 4 Your First Costume
  13. 5 Modern Designs and Modern Networks
  14. 6 Dancers in High Fashion
  15. 7 Digital Costuming
  16. 8 Stepping Into the Past
  17. Index