Title

Dance and Fashion Symposium

Contributor Names

Winestein, Anna

Ray, Ann

Hill, Colleen, 1982-

Rasche, Adelheid

Monden, Masafumi

Eilber, Janet

Marra, Melissa

Pantelides, Katerina

Garafola, Lynn

Mears, Patricia

Date

2014-10-24

2014-10-23

Description

The fourteenth annual fashion symposium, Dance & Fashion, explored how dance costume has inspired fashion, and how fashion designers have increasingly been creating dance costumes, held at The Museum at FIT on October 23 & 24, 2014.

1. Lynn Garafola, "Beauty and the Ballerina." Lynn Garafola is a professor of dance at Barnard College. She is author of "Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance" and has curated exhibitions on the New York City Ballet and Jerome Robbins.

2. Dr. Adelheid Rasche, "On Dance Fashion and Fashionable Dances: Remarks on the Berlin Dance Scene During the Weimar Republic." Dr. Adelheid Rasche is an art and fashion historian and is currently curator of the Lipperheide Costume Library in Berlin, Germany.

3. Patricia Mears, "From Sylph to Swan: The Tutu and Fashion." Patricia Mears, deputy director of The Museum at FIT, has curated a number of exhibitions, including Elegance in an Age of Crisis, Ivy Style, and the upcoming YSL + Halston: Fashioning the 70s.

4. Janet Eilber and Melissa Marra, in conversation: "Martha Graham and Modern Dance." Janet Eilber is a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Now its artistic director, she is dedicated to creating new audience access to Grahams masterworks. Melissa Marra is the associate curator of education and public programs at The Museum at FIT. She contributed an essay on Martha Graham to the catalogue of Dance & Fashion and also coordinated production of the book.

5. Colleen Hill, "Ballet Shoes: Function, Fashion, and Fetish." Colleen Hill, associate curator of accessories at The Museum at FIT, explored the history of ballet shoes for the Dance & Fashion exhibition and publication.

6. Anna Winestein, "Russia's Icons of Dance." Anna Winestein is a historian of Russian art and theater and an independent curator. Executive director of the Ballet Russes Cultural Partnership in Boston, she previously was creative director for the Hermitage Museum Foundation.

7. Katerina Pantelides, "Dancing in the City: Balletic Body Image in 1940s New York." Katerina Pantelides is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her thesis examines how Russian emigre ballet practitioners influenced the appearance and experience of female embodiment.

8. Dr. Masafumi Monden, "In Praise of Sheer Perfection: Ballet, Clothing, and Japanese Culture." Dr. Masafumi Monden lectures and teaches design studies at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. He publishes in the areas of fashion, Japan, and popular culture.

9. Ann Ray, "Metamorphosis: From the Dressing Room to the Stage." Ann Ray is a French artist using photography, film, and words in her work. Her four books of photography include "Love Looks Not With the Eyes," which grew out of a 13-year collaboration with Lee Alexander McQueen.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

Dance costume

Fashion design

Ballet

Costume design

Dance

Museum exhibits

Dance and Fashion

Ballets russes

Soviet Union

Costume

Russia

McQueen, Alexander, 1969-2010

Ray, Ann

Photography

Ballet slippers

Modern dance

Fashion

Japan

Graham, Martha

Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

Body image

New York (N.Y.)

Tutus (Ballet skirts)

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000169