costume colloquium - call for papers, 2010 - Florenz

[Desideria Bardi]

UPCOMING EVENT FOR NOVEMBER 2010!
COSTUME COLLOQUIUM II: Dress for Dance

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. For four days (exact dates to be determined)
participants will attend lectures, see demonstrations, have on-site
visits as well as observe or participate in exclusive dance
performances.
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.
A wide variety of papers and presentations will provide participants
with in-depth knowledge and new information about unpublished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.

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 popular music,
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

For further information please write to dressfordance@costume-
textiles.com or look the website www.costume-textiles.com