CHRISTINA SUNTOVSKI
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
DRESSING DANCE: PERFORMING SPACES, PLACES AND BODIES
Dressing Dance: Performing Spaces, Places and Bodies’ investigates the empirical relationship between history, materiality, memory and the human existence within archival dance performance. Deeply rooted in the patina of ethnic realism of European folkloric nostalgia, the collection takes strong inspiration from the visual opulence, domestic hand-crafted customs and ornamental configurations of the Macedonian costume. It centres on the prospect of ‘playing with the past’, addressing the challenge of cultural preservation in a modern context by integrating traditional techniques with contemporary design. Abstracted as surfaces, with fragments and dissections of archival craftsmanship, the collection is emboldened into the transdisciplinary space of costume design for performance, and intimate wear.
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