Ballet: Staging Britishness

This research explores how ‘Britishness’ was presented in Sadler’s Wells’ Sleeping Beauty (1946) through the notions of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ and ‘nostalgia’.
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Performance, Modern, Europe, Media, Textiles, Methods of Documentation, Lived Experience, Conservation, Memory Studies

Rediscovering Quick-change Through Costume

An object-based study of early twentieth-century live Popular Perfomance, looking at design, operation and technology.
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Performance, Modern, Europe, Media, Textiles, Technologies, Untold / Marginalised Narratives, Gender Studies

Lucha Libre and EP/CDJ

This research uses an object-led approach to examine agency and performance tradition within lucha libre character design.
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Performance, Contemporary, Americas, Textiles, Oral Histories, Untold / Marginalised Narratives, Gender Studies