Design for Performance Hub
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Design for performance hub provides a space for presentation, reflection and dissemination of research around costume, scenography and performance.
The researchers' focus is on the agency of design in the collaborative process inherent to performance-making, on the embodiment of culture through design for performance – be it contemporary or historical – and on the exposition of new curatorial, societal and technological perspectives.
Members analyse performance, both mediated and live, through design, considering the engagement with the material, dressed body of the performer as key to the spectating experience. They bring to the fore practitioners and scholars who have broken new ground in their respective fields of expertise. These have included experimental designers, choreographers and directors, whose work has explored new methods of performance-making through costume and scenography.
Equally, the hub has foregrounded innovators in design realisation, authors changing the way design for performance is perceived through their writing and curatorial practices that have re-presented costume and scenography in a new light. The hub also disseminates the experimental application of workshop-based methodologies, originally devised for performers, to the design process, in order to support the work of design-led performance making.
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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
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20 John Princes Street
London
W1G 0BJ
United Kingdom
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Last modified:
2023-09-20 15:00:30