Researchers from different artistic fields met in costume workshop at SKH

Over the course of a day, twelve researchers – six internal from SKH and six external – gathered to explore dramaturgy in the interaction between bodies and costume in performance spaces.

The workshop consisted of improvisation exercises and reflection, where the participants had to investigate how and what arises dramaturgically, when creating from an untraditional starting point such as, in this case, a costume. Together, the group explored performing arts based on the many possibilities of things, material, functional, associative. They used dramaturgy as a tool to create, as well as to describe the experience and understanding of the result. The meeting between researchers from different artistic fields opened up exciting perspectives and new interdisciplinary dialogues.

Among the participants from SKH were Thomas Brennan, assistant lecturer in post-production, Alejandro Bonnet, assistant lecturer in mime, and Tove Sahlin and Åsa Johannisson, both assistant professors in mime. As well as Josephine Rydberg PhD fellow at Film & Media, SKH. External participants were Ingvild Rømo Grande, PhD student at NTNU in Trondheim Norway, Natálie Rajnišová, PhD student, Franziska Bork-Petersen, assistant professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and Susan Marshall PhD Costume designer and researcher, Fashion Institute of Technology in Milano. Workshops leaders were, in addition to Christina Lindgren, costume designer and researcher Charlotte Østergaard, as well as performance artist and researcher Liv Kristin Holmberg, with support from Sodja Lotker, dramaturge at The Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Prague, Czech Republic, Sally Dean, PhD student at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

The research project builds on the research project Costume Agency (2018-2023) where Lindgren and Lotker were principal researchers.

All pictures, photo: Johan Palme/SKH