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Costume Dramaturgies (2026)

Christina Fossaas Lindgren, Charlotte Østergaard

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With the artistic research project Costume Dramaturgies we explore the dramaturgy that emerges when performance takes an unconventional starting point: a costume – a thing. By approaching dramaturgy as an assembly of things, we shift perspective from the human to the non-human, giving agency to costume, props, and light in performance. We argue that the dramaturgy of things remains an under-researched area in the performing arts. The one-year project is funded by Stockholm University of the Arts and brings together 12 researchers from costume design, dramaturgy, mime acting, LARP, film direction, theatre studies, scenography, and performance art. This multi-perspective, poly-vocal approach aims to generate a nuanced understanding of dramaturgy of things, and includes workshops based on devising methods—most notably the Costume Jam Session, where participants interact with costumes through chains of action, followed by reflection on the dramaturgy that emerges. The project is a continuation of the artistic research project Costume Agency.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsDramaturgy, costume design, artistic reasearch, performing arts, experimental theatre, scenography, devising, devising theatre, costume jam session, improvisation, costume improvisation
date24/11/2025
published19/01/2026
last modified19/01/2026
statuspublished
affiliationStockholm University of the Arts
copyrightChristina Lindgren and Charlotte Østergaard
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4011823/4011824
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.4011823
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkhttps://www.uniarts.se/english/research-and-development-work/research-projects/kostym-dramaturgier-tingens-dramaturgi-i-forestallningar/


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