Fabrications

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Fabrications is written by Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies Rachel Fensham and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019769960X (ISBN 10) and 9780197699607 (ISBN 13).

Fabrications offers a field-expanding approach to the costume archive that gives new authority to the physical record and material culture of dance artefacts. Imaginatively organized according to a chronology of fabric--to invoke design/style history, industrial history, choreographic history--this book prioritizes the embodied histories, labor, origins and afterlives of American concert dance. Richly illustrated with an incredible range of costumes from archives in the United States and Europe alongside stills from leading twentieth-century dance works, it explores how different choreographers and designers have used specific styles to make fashion statements in movement.