Across the Catwalk: Performance Innovation in the Fashion Runway Show
Performance comes in many forms, faces, and fabrics. Much as theater necessitates not only a creative work, be it a play, musical, or improvised work, but also performers and an audience, so does the fashion world, coming to a pinnacle in the runway show where clothing, models, and spectators intersect. The audience, like in live theater, is crucial to the art form, as much a part of the experience as the garments themselves, with celebrities in attendance and reaction photographs splashed across tabloids as the models sashay past their voyeurs.
Tools for Magic-Making: On Green Screens and Magic Shows for the Cyber-Stage
The transition to online virtual performance has led to a reimagining of spectacle on the cyber-stage. In particular, the green screen has become a new landscape for illusion-making and exploring three-dimensionality on the two-dimensional Zoom stage. Magic shows during this pandemic have also continued to explore how to create spectacle on the screen.