Saturday, June 9, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Choose from thousands of opera, theatre, dance, musical theatre and film-related items. These items are duplicate material from our library collection. Pay one admission for each time you pass through the Sale in the Main Gallery and take away as much as you can carry in one [...]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Loie Fuller, c1900 Isadora Duncan, n.d.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Museum of Performance & Design Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, 7 – 9 PM From the museum’s description: “Les Années Folles — The Crazy Years — was how Parisians themselves described life in their city during the Jazz Era. Everyone came to Paris, where everything was happening. Bursting with creativity and joie de vivre, Paris of [...]
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Florence Boynton and the Berkeley Historical Society (includes CSA Western Region Annual Membership Meeting) Oct. 2, 2011 (Registration Due September 24) Berkeley, CA This program will be a presentation on the theatrical and fashion collection of Florence Boynton, dancer and choreographer, and her family. Boynton was a friend of Isadora Duncan and one of the [...]
My small hometown of Benicia, CA has a historical museum whose website includes several groups of ‘mystery’ vintage photographs. Though places, dates, and people aren’t always known. These photographs provide a remarkably clear record of what people were wearing in times gone by. I’d guess that the majority of the photographs on this website come [...]
Last week, Fashion blog Kingdom of Style put up a thoughtful and visually stunning post on the connections between the design duo known as Rodarte, Black Swan and the links between dance and fashion. It highlights a new collaboration between ‘big name’ fashion designers and the English National Ballet. Coupled with the coverage of the [...]
The Costumes of IRIS from Cirque Du Soleil: Characters By Design with Costume Designer Philippe Guillotel Wednesday, June 22 at 7:00 pm The Costume Council proudly presents a behind-the-scenes look at the awe-inspiring costumes of internationally renowned Cirque du Soleil®. Our grand finale program offers an exclusive preview of the upcoming resident production of IRIS [...]
Last week I came upon the most marvelous collection of Dance artifacts while I was doing a bit of research via Calisphere (a digital consortium of primary sources via the University of California) and the California Digital Library. The beauty of these illustrations stopped me dead in my tracks. Called the Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection, it [...]
Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times brought with it a mention of Natacha Rambova – the woman who’s fashion and costume design career I’ve been researching for the last eight years. It always thrills me to come upon new (or not-so-new research). Times reporter, Chris Erskine, took a road trip to Crown Point, Indiana where Natacha Rambova [...]
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