Presentation
Clothes and Choreography: Åpen presentasjon av studentoppgaver
Fra 22. august til har dansere, koreografer og kostymedesignere deltatt på kurset Clothes and Coreography. 15. september presenterer studentene arbeidene de har produsert i perioden.
Photo from workshop Clothes for Dance – an interdisciplinary research 2014. Costume Kristine Gjems. Choreography Heidi Jessen. Dancers: Anita Suzanne Gregory and Charlott Madeleine Utzig. Photo: Christina Lindgren.
Thursday September 15th
12.00 -13.30, Scene 6
Lecture: Public presentation of clothes and choreography and discussion with audience
The course "Clothes and Choreography - an interdisciplinary research" is a collaboration between two departments at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Dance and Design Departments with their group of master students in Choreography and Costume design.
Aim
In an interdisciplinary context the students will experiment and reflect upon:
The interaction of clothes and the body- in movement- in a performative context.
Develop specialized and deeper knowledge in the field of clothing and the moving body.
Gather existing knowledge and develop new knowledge in the field of clothing to dance.
Background
We will explore the boundaries of what is what in the meeting point between the dancer's body movements and clothing. Where does the dancer's body end and where does the clothes begin? What occurs in the fusion between the moving body and the clothes? How does the costume influence our view of the dancer's movement?
Anne Grete Eriksen and Christina Lindgren ask What are clothes to dance? - and invite students, teachers, artists and theorist to an interdisciplinary research laboratory spanning over four weeks in the autumn of 2016. The laboratory will be characterized by an investigative attitude and is process oriented. The result is a presentation/ display of the most interesting laboratory discoveries.
KHiO is one of the few art schools in Europe with choreography and costume education on masters’ level under the same roof. We want to utilize this opportunity.
Starting point
The total of body and clothes can be called a "figure", a “gestalt” or "an appearance".
Apperance, accordingly to Oxford Dictionary, is defined as:
- the way that someone or something looks
- an act of performing or participating in a public event
- an act of arriving or becoming visible
- a process of coming into existence or use.
Clothes on a body has not only semiotic perspectives. We will investigate different perspectives to gain an understanding that can contain the complexity in this unity called an apperance.
The clothes of the dancer form the basis for the reading not only of the costume, but the whole dance. Costume designers and choreographers have different knowledge about what this figure indicates. An exchange of knowledge enhances an expanded and mutual understanding. Through laboratory experiments, we will examine these relationships. Through systematic investigations, we will put into perspective the interaction of clothes and body in dance in a performative setting.