Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance [Hardcover]

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? 4. Contemporary Runways, Contemporary Costumes??Part 3: The insubordinate here and now??5. The insubordinate here and now? 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

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.

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.

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.

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