Costume in performance : materiality, culture, and the body /

• Main Author: Barbieri, Donatella (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Trimingham, Melissa 1955- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
• Subjects: Κοστούμια > Θέατρο > Ιστορία; Παραστατικές τέχνες > Θέατρο

"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...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note:
• Preface Introduction
• 1. The First Costume: Ritual and Reinvention
• 2. Costuming Choruses: Spectacle and the Social Landscape on Stage
• 3. The Grotesque Costume: The Comical and Conflicted 'Other' Body
• 4. The Flight off the Pedestal
• 5. Agency and Empathy: Artists Touch the Body
• 6. A Different Performativity: Society, Culture and History on Stage Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.