1st Edition

Instruments of Embodiment Costuming in Contemporary Dance

By Eric Mullis Copyright 2023
190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Media of Touch

Chapter 3: Anarchist Experiments

Chapter 4: Your First Costume

Chapter 5: Modern Designs and Modern Networks


Chapter 6: Dancers in High Fashion

Chapter 7: Digital Costuming

Chapter 8: Stepping into the Past

Index


Biography

Eric C. Mullis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte, USA. He has published essays on somaesthetics, dance technology, and dance ethics, as well as the book, Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South (2019).

'Mullis’s Instruments of Embodiment cast clothes—items close to the body and activated through movement in social contexts of performance—as potent interlocutors for dancers, choreographers, and designers alike. For fashion design theorists and practitioners the book may be of particular interest as it unearths a complexity of sensorial, material, and social aspects of garments in interaction with the moving bodies.' Tamara Tomić-Vajagić, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

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