Gregor Sturm is a scenographer, costume designer, theatre manager and architect,working for theatre and opera productions across Europe. He holds a Master’s Degree in stage and costume design, and diplomas in architecture and in theatre management. He is a member of the executive board of the German Scenographer Association (Bund der Szenografen) and the German Delegate for Performance Design in OISTAT. He has also initiated some major changes within the German theatre system by developing a movement called ‘40.000 members of the theatre meeting with their government officials’.
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. He created a special art piece inspired on his performanceBLINDfor PQ’15, as part of the Brazilian exhibition.
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.
Sodja Zupanc Lotker is the Course Leader of the Master in Directing Devised and Object Theatre at the Prague Performing Arts Academy (DAMU). She works as a dramaturg for independent theatre, dance and site-specific projects and was Artistic Director of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (2008–2015), which received the Europe for Festivals – Festivals for Europe (EFFE) Award in 2015–2016.
LECTURE #1 | July 1st at 10:00-11:30 Christina Lindgren The Costume Designers’ “Golden List of Competence” |
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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 |
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LECTURE #3 | July 2nd at 16:30-18:00 Eloise Kazan Romeo and Juliet: Telling the Story Through Shoes |
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PANEL #1 | July 1st at 12:00-13:30 Transforming Designers, Chaired by April Viczko ■ April Viczko Production Designer: Generalist or Specialist? ■ Lise Klitten Costume Transformation on Stage ■ Bacchus Lee Front to Back |
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PANEL #2 | July 1st at 14:30-16:00 Insights into Costume, Chaired by Sofia Pantouvaki ■ Donatella Barbieri Encounters and Exchanges: Costume Design Innovation in an International Context ■ Annie Cleveland Transforming Creativity, Execution and Communication through Digital Costume Design ■ Laura Crow The Virtual Costume Museum Project |
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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. |
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FLASH TALKS | July 1st at 16:30-18:00 ■ Chihiro Kokubu An Experience with ‘TOKYO KODO’, an Incense Brand ■ Emily Collett Costuming the Nation: Establishing an Australian Identity Through Costume for Performance ■ Sabrina Notarfrancisco Costume as Activism ■ Fruzsina Nagy Taboo Collection: Catwalk Concert ■ Renato Bolelli Costume as an Experience: the Construction of Situations Between Body, Materiality and Performativity ■ Nadia Malik Costume With Textiles BA(Hons), University of Huddersfield ■ Naima Agamy Costume Designs: Creating Headdresses and Turbans for A Night of a Thousand Nights ■ Sabine Snijders Costume Designs for Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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