{"id":3859,"date":"2024-03-07T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:49:53","slug":"from-digital-to-dressing-room-hair-theory-technology-and-the-styling-of-black-women-on-broadway-christin-essen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"From Digital to Dressing Room: Hair Theory, Technology, and the Styling of Black Women on Broadway &#8211; Christin Essen &#8211; Mar. 1, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">part of BMO Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=3915\">&#8216;Staging Infrastructures&#8217; Winter Lecture Series<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/920543700?h=a765f6b296&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"From Digital to Dressing Room: Hair Theory, Technology, and the Styling of Black Women on Broadway - Christin Essen\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td>Christin Essin, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and author of&nbsp;<em>Working Backstage and Stage Designers in Early 20th Century America<\/em>, 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.&nbsp;<br><br>Essin&#8217;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.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>part of BMO Lab&#8217;s &#8216;Staging Infrastructures&#8217; Winter Lecture Series Christin Essin, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and author of&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-posts","category-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}