Performing Dress Lab is a International Research network that has evolved in partnership between:
- University of the Arts London (UAL)
- Aalto University, Finland
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
It was founded by UAL Research Alumni across these institutions who collectively inform a specialist platform for Research and Knowledge Exchange between Academia and Industry.
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Critical Costume 2023, An International Conference and Installation: 6th-9th March 2024
Established in 2013, Critical Costume is an international research network focused on the promotion of new costume scholarship and practice (see: https://www.criticalcostume.com/). The network is led by the following partners: Queensland University of Technology and National Institute Dramatic Arts (Australia) Aalto University
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Critical Costume 2022, An International Conference and Exhibition: 17-20 November 2022
Critical Costume 2022 (CC2022) is the fifth event within the Critical Costume research platform. It will consist of an online conference and a virtual exhibition. Conference presentations will be delivered live, and not pre-recorded. Established in 2013, Critical Costume is an
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Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods
About Performance Costume Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in
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Critical Costume 2018 An International Conference and Exhibition: 12th – 14th September 2018
12th – 14th September 2018 University of Surrey, UK Theme: ‘Costume Ethics’ Deadline: 16th May 2018 There is something risky about costume. Acts of costuming can render bodies as highly visible, yet discourses of ‘the body’ all too often assign this distinctive agency to acting or
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Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture and the Body
About Costume in Performance 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
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Studies in Costume and Performance Journal Launch with Sofia Pantouvaki and Donatella Barbieri
Studies in Costume & Performance is the first international research journal to focus entirely on the nascent field of costume for performance. Please join the launch of this exciting new publication on 2nd February 2017. To celebrate we have invited
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Performing Dress Lab Launch: March 2018 at The Barbican
The conference will bring together teachers, academics and researchers from a range of international institutions engaged with the teaching of theatre and performance design to explore current pedagogy and provide a discursive platform for exploring new approaches to learning and
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Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space was established in 1967 to bring the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture to the front line of cultural activities to be experienced by professional and emerging artists as
