part of BMO Lab’s ‘Staging Infrastructures’ Winter Lecture Series
| Christin Essin, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and author of Working Backstage and Stage Designers in Early 20th Century America, is an award-winning historian of technical theatre, performance design, and labour. This Friday she will share work from a new project on the intersections between race, technological change, and the styling and costuming of Broadway performers. Essin’s research draws sharp focus to the skilled Broadway professionals whose use of analog and digital technologies prepare the bodies of actors to perform. Even costume technologies as small as a hairpin, she argues, have the potential to unlock the situational and cultural complexities of backstage labour. |
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