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Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
2021

McKay Keith

BFA Theatre Production – Design and Technology

McKay Keith

Worship to Wardrobe: A History of Animism in Theatrical Costuming

This presentation traces performative costuming from pre-historic Siberian Shamanism to the modern era, and proposes that remnants of animism in contemporary costume design indicate a much older origin of the practice than Ancient Greece.