Slow Costuming: Creating Characters through Coupe
Chirs Snik
MER. B&L & Track Report, 2023
€34,00
Researcher and costume designer Chris Snik wants to demonstrate the importance of a thorough collaboration between designer and performer, where the development of an idea and the elaboration of a costume interact dialectically. Coupe is the key word here. Costumes with a good fit are not possible without a cut that can give the right accents to body shapes and thus construct a character.
Little to no research has been done into cut in fashion and costume design. Although the costume (and therefore also the cut) are becoming increasingly important in contemporary performing arts, less and less time, resources and expertise are being devoted to this. In an increasingly shorter rehearsal process, it is often not possible to create in an integrated manner. Within costume design, coming up with an idea and executing it are often seen as separate activities. The collaborations with the performers are minimal.
Snik wants to bridge the gap between the (moving) body and the expression of the performer, on the one hand, and the concept and process of making a costume on the other. Through literature, studying designer pieces, field research and artistic experiments with performers, the final performance will be cut the character and body of the performer are formed. Snik will collaborate with, among others, Karel Tuytschaever, Klaas De Vos, Daniel Poulson, Bart Van Merode, Katleen Vinck, Cees Janssens and Pieter Desmet. The findings from this research will provide guidelines to designers (in training), performers and theater makers. In this publication you can read and view the results of both her theoretical and practical research in which she integrates images, photos and film stills (by Gert Goiris).
ISBN: 9789464778939
