LABORATORY COSTUME PERFORMANCE

 

As a primal idea this laboratory aims to address costume design technique and directly integrate it into the research and development of performance parameters such as physicality, performativity, presence, aesthetics and semiology among others.

 

The laboratory will be divided in two parts:

 

During the first days a brief but intense specific costume technique workshop will be given in order to make the participants conscious of what they are doing and what they want to create during the 5-day-laboratory. The principal goal is that each individual will create at least one item to which she/he will develop a specific attachment during the creation period and that will florish within the performance.

As this workshop integrates recycling and redefining techniques I ask the participants to bring materials or costumes to create from scratch or to transform (tissues, trousers, hats, suits, blouses, skirts, coats, plastics, foam . . . etc).

 

After the daily atelier experience: In the second part of the day we will start to investigate the relation between the item in creation process and its performer in research. Her we will try  to achieve two parallel dynamics where the development, the making of the first one (costume) will affect directly the shape and content of the second (performer). At this point, the introduction of movement exercises, discussions, readings, sound, video screenings and individual or group improvisations will give us the possibility of deepen into the imagery, form or antiform of our trip, always with the goal of achieving a plastic and aesthetic coherence.  

 

 

Time:

from the 4th to the 9th of January 2010                                                              everyday from 12-15pm (break) and from 16 to 18pm