COSTUME COLLOQUIUM II: DRESS FOR DANCE
Florence, November 3rd-7th 2010
Preliminary Program of Daily Sessions and Events*
(*Subject to change and updates)
NOVEMBER 3rd - WEDNESDAY
• Afternoon (Auditorium al Duomo): Registration followed by a welcoming snack/aperitif
NOVEMBER 4th - THURSDAY
• Morning (Auditorium al Duomo):
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Opening Remarks |
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Introduction: Carlo Sisi (Art Historian, Florence, Italy) |
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Session I: History of dance costume for professional performance: theatre, ballet, cinema, etc
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- Marilyn Revell DeLong (Professor of Apparel Studies and Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, University of Minnesota, USA) - Fashionable Dress and Popular Dance in 1930s Hollywood |
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- Aurora Fiorentini (Professor of Fashion and Dress, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy) - The ‘Haute Couture’ Dancing Dress in the Cinema of the Fifties and the Sixties. The Exemplar Case of Hubert de Givenchy: from “Sabrina” (1954) to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
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Discussion
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Coffee break |
Session II: Historical dance re-enactment: getting the steps and the clothing right
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- Jackie Marshall-Ward (Researcher, Performer, Teacher and Director of Dance Royal and Hands on History, UK) - Dance for Dress or Dress for Dance: Clothing or Costume? |
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- Jamia Hansen-Murray (Dancer/Costume Designer Seattle, USA) - 18th Century Gowns for the 21st Century Dancer: Practical Experience in Costuming Baroque Dancers
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- Barbara Menard Pugliese (Dance Historian and Director, Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, Boston, USA) - Recreating the Nineteenth Century Ballroom |
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- Christina Bates (Curator of Social History, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada) - Right Brain, Left Brain: An Historian Researches and Performs Dance and Dress of Early Canada |
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Discussion |
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Lunch break |
• Afternoon (Auditorium al Duomo):
Session III: Documenting dance dress: dress as documents and documents of dress
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- Portia Ungley (PhD Candidate, Kingston University, Kingston, UK)
Visual Culture through the Costumes of Léon Bakst
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- John Hoenig (Theatre and Event Director, Renaissance Scholar, Florence, Italy) - A Talent to Amaze - Bernardo Buontalenti’s Costume Designs for the Intermedi of 1589 |
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- Helena Kazárová (Researcher/Choreographer of 17th-18th Century Dance and Associate Professor of Dance and Ballet History and Aesthetics, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic) - Dance and Time: Costumes for Dance in Ceský Krumlov Baroque Theatre Collection |
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- Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (Researcher of History and Art History at Versailles Palace, France ) - Dance Shopping in Paris in the Late 17th Century: Princely Dress for Dance in the European Courts |
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Discussion |
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Presentation of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation |
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Exclusive visit to the exhibition 'Bronzino, Artist and Poet' and reception at the Palazzo Strozzi
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NOVEMBER 5th - FRIDAY
• Morning (Auditorium al Duomo):
Session IV: Dress for traditional and ceremonial dance: costume as expressions of cultures
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- Donatella Lippi (Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy) - Dance and Therapeutic Knots
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- Sara Piccolo Paci (Costume Historian & Anthropologist, Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, Florence, Italy) - Dressing for the Last Ball: the Obscure Side of Dance – from the Totentanz to Thriller |
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- Anna Maria Colombo (Scienza e Cultura delle Alpi, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy)
Costume and Traditional Dance in the Communities of Western Alps |
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- Chanel Clarke (Curator of the Maori Collection, Auckland Museum, New Zealand)
From Flax Fibre to Spandex Tights: The Evolution of Maori Costume for Dance |
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- Khadijah Lakkis (Conference Manager, Arab Administrative Development Organization, the League of Arab States., Cairo and Board Member, the Museum of Baalbeck International Festival, Lebanon) - The Cultural Expressions of Costumes of the Lebanese Dance |
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Discussion |
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Coffee break |
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- Alexandra Kajdanska (Dance Teacher & Costume Historian, Gdansk-Oliwa, Poland)
Dance Costume in Yunnan: From Ritual Dance to the Modern Dance Drama |
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- Vandana Bhandari (Professor of Fashion and Textiles, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India), Kapoor Kiran (Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India) & Rastogi Deepali (Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India) - Traditional and Ceremonial Dance Costumes: Imaging Cultural Beliefs, Practices and Identities |
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Presentation of the Cerratelli Foundation |
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Lunch Break |
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• Afternoon (Auditorium al Duomo):
Session V: Creating dance costume: designers, artists, artisans, stylists, tailors, seamstresses using traditional, experimental and/or contemporary materials and techniques
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- Joseph Fontano (Choreographer & President of World Dance Alliance Europe in cooperation with ITI/UNESCO, Rome, Italy) - Dancing within Ready Made Materials |
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- Jennifer Irwin (Costume Designer, Sidney, Australia) - Designing for Contemporary Indigenous Dance in Australia: Bangarra Dance Theatre
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- Mimi Maxmen (Costume Designer, New York/Los Angeles, USA; Assistant Professor of Design, Parsons/The New School for Design, New York City) & Holly Hynes (Costume Designer and Consultant (George Balanchine Trust and Jerome Robbins Estate) and Emeritus Director of Costumes, the New York City Ballet, New York, USA) “See the Music. Hear the Dance”: Examining the process of the art of creating original dance costumes from the flat sketch to the three-dimensional garment |
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- Fiona Reilly (Costume Designer, Academic & Historian, National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Sydney, Australia) – Dance Costume as an Expression of Culture: the Co-existence and Merging of European and Aboriginal Inspired Dance Costume in Australia |
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Discussion |
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Exclusive visit/event and reception (details to be announced) |
NOVEMBER 6th - SATURDAY
• Morning (Auditorium al Duomo):
Session VI : Dance costume in museums and archives: collecting designs and surviving costume, conservation, display techniques
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- Maria Paola Ruffino (Curator, Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica di Torino, Turin, Italy) & Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols (Adjunct Professor of Costume Studies and Design Polimoda, Florence, Italy) A Seventeenth Century Doublet “for Dance” from the House of Savoy
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- Cynthea Dowling (Costume Mounting & Display Specialist, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK) & Sam Gatley (Textile Display Specialist, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK) Dressing for the Ballet: Displaying Costume from the Ballet Russes
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- Lynda Hillyer (Senior Textile Conservator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK)
The Queen of Oudh and the Nautch Dancers of 19th Century India |
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- Hilary Davidson (Curator of Fashion and Decorative Arts, Museum of London, London, UK)
Flying Dancers, Dying Swans and Soho Dives: Dance Costumes at Museum of London |
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- Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano (Textile Conservator, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico) - The Zagalejo: a Skirt that Sparkles with Grace |
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- Nina Tarasova (Curator of Costume, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Dress-code of the Russian Court: Costumes for Balls and Masquerades at the State Hermitage Museum |
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Discussion |
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Coffee break |
Session VII: Fashion and popular dance: the relationship between new styles of dance and fashionable dress, past and present
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- Susannah Worth (Costume Researcher and Consultant, Worth Consulting, Inc., Miami Beach, USA) - Why Fanny Elssler’s Florinda Costume Still Matters
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- Brandin Barón-Nusbaum (Professor of Design and Design History, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) - Camargo as Fashion Muse |
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- Katarina Nina Simoncic (Assistant professor of Clothing Design and Textiles, University of Zagreb, Croatia) - Croatian Dance Costume in the 19th Century: Symbol of Social and Political Changes in Zagreb |
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Discussione |
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Coffee Break |
• Afternoon (Auditorium al Duomo):
Session VIII: Dance costume and artistic expression: their reciprocal relationship
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- Gillion Carrara (Adjunct Professor and Director, the Fashion Resource Centre, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) - Soundsuits - Nick Cave in Dance
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- Tamara Tomic-Vajagic (PhD Candidate, Roehampton University, London - Visual Artist and Dance Historian/Writer, Belgrade, Serbia) - The Emergence of Leotard Ballets and the Aesthetics of Practice-Clothes in Twentieth Century Dance |
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- Caroline O’Brien (PhD candidate in Visual Culture, The National College of Art, Dublin, Ireland, Costume Designer and Associate Professor in Theatre School at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) - Intimate pas de deux: the Prima Ballerina and the Classical Tutu |
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Discussion |
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Presentation of the Casa Martelli Museum |
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Tea Break |
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Exclusive visit/event and reception (details to be announced) |
NOVEMBER 7th - SUNDAY
• Morning (Auditorium al Duomo):
• Mattina (Auditorium al Duomo):
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Brief Communications |
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Presentation of the Post Conference Tour to Siena |
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Introduction of Costume Colloquium III (2012) |
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Closing Remarks |
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Farewell Brunch |
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Departure for the Optional Post Conference Tour to Siena - Exclusive visits and reception (in collaboration with the Municipality of Siena, Civic Museums and a Sienese Contrada) |
Costume Colloquium Fees
Registration & Payment
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