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COSTUME  COLLOQUIUM II: Dress for Dance

4 - 7 November 2010 -  Florence, Italy

Following the great success of the first Costume Colloquium (held in Florence 6-9 November 2008 and attended by over 315 participants from 26 countries with 39 presentations on 8 themes), there will be a second symposium in November 2010 on the subject of Dress for Dance.
Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will explore interdisciplinary aspects of dance dress and costume, this multi-cultural mode of human expression, from a variety of practical, historical and creative perspectives. A wide of variety of papers and presentations will provide participants with indepth knowledge and new information about unpublished research, new creations and/or practical experiments related to the international, interdisciplinary and intercultural themes associated with dress for dance. 
Parallel to the academic sessions there will be several special events and venues which will give the participants an opportunity not only to visit never before seen treasures but also to network and socialize each other.
This unique symposium will be of interest not only to costume and dance historians, costume designers, costume makes, museum curators, archivists, textile and costume conservators, dancers and dance re-enactors, etc., but also to students and members of the public with a desire to learn about dress for dance from the experts in the fields examined.
As was the case for Costume Colloquium: A Tribute to Janet Arnold, the second edition will benefit from the collaboration of a number of prestigious national and international institutions who are supporting this new initiative. The topics covered will include the use of historic dress for re-enactment dances, and the interpretation of dance dress in documents and visual images, the creation of costumes employing traditional and contemporary materials and techniques and their conservation and museum display, and they will incorporate both theoretical and practical perspectives on these subjects.
 
 
The topics of Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will include the following themes: 
  • History of dance costume for professional performance: theatre, ballet, cinema, etc. 
  • Dress for traditional and ceremonial dance: costume as expressions of cultures 
  • Fashion and popular dance: relationship between new styles of dance and fashionable dress, past and present
  • Creating dance costume: designers, artists, artisans, stylists, tailors, seamstresses using traditional, experimental and/or contemporary materials and techniques 
  • Historical dance re-enactment: getting the steps and the clothing right 
  • Dance costume in museums and archives: collecting designs and surviving costume, conservation, display techniques 
  • Documenting dance dress: dress as documents and documents of dress
  • Dance costume and artistic expression: their reciprocal relationship


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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 PROMOTERS:

Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation
Association Friends of the Galleria Del Costume
 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Roberta Orsi Landini, Textile and Costume Historian, Florence
Jackie Marshall-Ward, Director, Danse Royale and Hands on History, UK
Sarah Woodcock, Theatre Costume and Dance Historian, UK
Carlo Sisi, Professor at the University of Siena and Art Historian, Florence
Carlotta Del Bianco, Founder Fellow, Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, Florence
Mary Westerman Bulgarella, Textile and Costume Conservator, Florence
Rosalia Varoli-Piazza, Special Advisor to the Director General of ICCROM and Art Historian Coordinator, Istituto Centrale pr il Restauro, Rome

For further information please write to dressfordance@costume-textiles.com.

 

 

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