Costume Design for Performance offers a detailed insight into the creative process behind designing costumes for the performing arts, including theatre, opera,
Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical mani
Costumes designed and made for devised or physical drama, for contemporary circus or for dance, differ radically from the more traditional costume work produced
Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather tha