Schedule

Workshop DAY 1	July 6	Thu	10:00-18:00	TD303, Theatre and Dance Building
Workshop DAY 2	July 7	Fri	10:00-16:00	TD303, Theatre and Dance Building
Open Performance & Discussion Session	July 7	Fri	17:30-19:00	R211, Research Building (open for free)

Concept

The costume workshop Designers on the Edge aims to provoke young and experienced designers over the boundaries of the forms, the materials and the techniques, considering the costume and its spatial relation as the body's edge, thinking about them as expressions of potency, wishes, limits or repression. The costume will not be created as one external piece to be worn, but as a live piece, an acting part of body. This workshop is for designers who wish to have a performance experience as part of creating, exploring their own inquietudesboth in the physical materialization as with the emotions expressed by their body/costume creation.

Process

The workshop starts before WSD 2017, by inviting the designers to construct a process in relationship with the team leaders, through an exchange of e-mails. Receiving different types of impulses and provocations, the designers will reflect and create one proposal each, exploring possibilities of recreating new values and proceeds to creation, production and reception. In this sense, this workshop is looking for personal processes where not only the costume but also its appropriation can result in an experience that could expand repertories and imaginations. The results will be presented at the end of the workshop, with an open discussion about contemporary creative processes.

Speakers

Rosane Muniz, PhD, is a Brazilian artist, journalist, researcher and curator, and Professor of Costume Design and Creativity Processes at Centro UniversitárioBelasArtes de São Paulo. She is Vice-Head for Projects, OISTAT Costume Design Group. She was Brazilian co-curator for the Extreme Costumes exhibition PQ’11; Researcher for the Brazilian National Exhibition PQ’11 (Golden Triga); Editor, Brazilian Exhibition Catalogue (PQ’11 and PQ’15); Curator, E-Scapes 2014; Co-Curator, Brazilian National Exhibition PQ’15. She lectures and publishes internationally.

Renato Bolelli is an art director, set and costume designer, architect, performer and visual artist. Bolelli is a PhD researcher in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo, investigating the poetics of destruction. Since 2003, he developed projects in the areas of theatre, ópera, dance, performance and exhibitions. He is a member of Usina da AlegriaPlanetária artistic residence and exchange.

Marcelo Denny, PhD, is a theatre and art director, set designer, visual artist, performer, and curator. He holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo, where he teaches scenography and performance art. He is the co-founder of DesvioColetivo among other theatre companies. Denny is the winner of several Brazilian theatre festivals. His creation BLIND was part of the Brazilian exhibition at PQ’15.

Marcos Bulhões, PhD, is a director, actor, professor and researcher. He holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo, where he is a teacher of directing and performance. Bulhões is one of the directors of the performance BLIND and of the DesvioColetivo group, with whom develops his academic research entitled “Performative Coralities” and “Brazilian Urban Intervention” with Marcelo Denny.
  

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LECTURE #2	July 2nd at 12:00-13:30 Simona Rybáková & Juli Balázs Costume Design as a Complex Discipline&Scenic Design as a Tool of Interpretation	More>>
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PANEL #3	July 2nd at 14:30-16:00 Costume and Politics, Chaired by Rosane Muniz ■ Gregor Sturm Costume and Politics ■ Marcelo Denny & Marcos Bulhões Visuality and Politics ■ Sodja Lotker* The Tribes – Politics of Costume and Group in Public Space *Sodja Lotker’s presentation will be presented by Simona Rybáková, with Rachel Hann, Sofia Pantouvaki and Sabrina Notarfrancisco as respondents.	More>>
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COSTUME RESEARCH SEMINAR

SEMINAR

July 6th 10:00-18:00 and July 7th 10:00-16:00 Thinking Costume Academic Curator: Sofia Pantouvaki A collaboration of CDG with the Aalto University “Costume Methodologies” project.

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INTERNATIONAL COSTUME WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP #1	Designers on the Edge July 6th at 10:00-18:00 and July 7th at 10:00-16:00 Open Session: 7th July at 16:30-18:00 Team Leaders: Rosane Muniz, Marcelo Denny, Marcos Bulhões and Renato Bolelli	More>>
WORKSHOP #2	Body Extension July 8th at 10:00-18:00 and July 9th at 10:00-16:00 Street Parade: July 9th at 16:30-18:00 Leader: Nic Ularu	More>>

Performance Design Commission
Costume Design Group (CDG)

COSTUME PROGRAMME AT SCENOFEST
Curators: Simona Rybáková, Rosane Muniz and Sofia Pantouvaki(OISTAT CDG)
With special thanks to CDG member Margaret Mitchell for the final shape of the texts

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Photo Credit: Liquidity, by Marcela de Quadros. Photographer: Bruno Barreto