Earlier this month I had the rare pleasure of taking a Costume Society of America (CSA) Western Region tour of Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers, the current exhibition on at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, with one of the world’s foremost historians on the earliest known clothing. Dr. Elizabeth Barber is an expert [...]
Thursday, January 24, 2013
MUSEUM OF PERFORMANCE + DESIGN First Rummage Sale in 20 years! Saturday, January 26th Veteran’s Building, Fourth Floor, MPD main gallery - Come see what treasures you could snap up for a great deal. Thousands of theatre, dance, music, opera, musical theatre, and film-related books and memorabilia as well as exhibition materials, office and audio/video [...]
Dance Archives Open House Museum of Performance and Design, Saturday, June 30, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm On the occasion of the Dance/USA Conference held this year in San Francisco, Museum of Performance and Design will display, for one day only, a selection of unique documents and costumes from the dance archives. The Museum will [...]
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 [...]
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