Listening through and with Costume

Summary, in English

In performance contexts, costume is often perceived as visual expression that is in service of, for example, a choreographer’s vision. I argue that costume is also an aesthetic and poetic language in its own right that allows individuals such as performers and designers to co-conceptualize and co-create performances. In co-creative performance-making processes, I argue that it is critical that designers open-mindedly listen to performers’ experiences of specific costumes and that we (designers and performer) through listening co-creatively explore potentialities and challenges that are embedded in a specific costume. In the co-creative process, we must pay attention and listen carefully to how a specific costume affects specific performers in order to explore the ‘hidden’ performative potentialities and qualities that are imbedded in a specific costume. In this article I will unfold aspects of how listening through and with costume can become a performance- making strategy and unpack details of what listening through and with the costume imply.

• Författare: Charlotte Østergaard
• Avdelning/ar: Lärare (Teaterhögskolan)
• Publiceringsår: 2023
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 90-99
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Nordic Journal of Dance
• Volym: 14
• Issue: 1
• Länkar: https://www.nordicjournalofdance.com/NordicJounal-14(1).pdf?fbclid=IwAR2LMrephGBTg6rdNLJRGzVQFEJ8XL4bnlpndtXT4232qBeDAAEtCTKqKXU; http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/njd-2023-0010
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Ämne: Performing Arts
• Nyckelord: Costume design; material thinking; co-creation; costume thinking; Dance; movement; material movement; Costumed perfomance
• Status: Published
• Projekt: Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1891-6708