UCLA Assistant Professor with Nicola Bowie | Researcher, Course Designer, Keynote Creator, Organizer

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A series of workshops intended to inform the student of the origin of fashion and costume in Europe, how is should be worn in a period opera production, and how it effects their physicality.​

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Keynote presentations that showed fashion history, the style of art of the period and its influences on dress, and etiquette/manners. Followed by actual costume pieces worn by students and with instructions on etiquette (how to dance, bow/curtsy, sit/stand/greet, across a section of society; use a fan, manage a train, wear a hat, wear a sword, wear underwear/undergarments; the "dos and don'ts of how to behave in society). A dance of the day was taught, with video aid, to solidify the knowledge learned previously in class. ​