Caroline O'Brien
Associate Professor Chair, School of Performance The Creative School School of Performance Toronto, Ontario c4obrien@torontomu.ca
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Caroline O'Brien has worked with major ballet and dance companies, collaborating with choreographers from across North America and Europe, and has a treasured collaborative relationship with Peggy Baker, Artistic Director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects. She worked with Canada’s National Ballet Sc...
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Bio/Research
Caroline O'Brien has worked with major ballet and dance companies, collaborating with choreographers from across North America and Europe, and has a treasured collaborative relationship with Peggy Baker, Artistic Director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects. She worked with Canada’s National Ballet School as resident costume designer and wardrobe supervisor, a position she held for almost 20 years.
In addition to costuming, Caroline has worked in large-scale sculpture incorporating industrial metal textiles with fashion fabrics. Her award-winning work has been performed and exhibited across Canada and internationally, and her designs were selected for the inaugural World Stage Design, 2005. She curated Sixty Years of Designing the Ballet, for The National Ballet of Canada, awarded the Richard Martin citation for excellence in costume curation by the Costume Society of America. Her recent research focuses on design processes in costume practice and the use of costume in training professional dancers. She has contributed to Luce Irigaray’s Building a New World (Palgrave) and The Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Ballet (pending 2020).
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In addition to costuming, Caroline has worked in large-scale sculpture incorporating industrial metal textiles with fashion fabrics. Her award-winning work has been performed and exhibited across Canada and internationally, and her designs were selected for the inaugural World Stage Design, 2005. She curated Sixty Years of Designing the Ballet, for The National Ballet of Canada, awarded the Richard Martin citation for excellence in costume curation by the Costume Society of America. Her recent research focuses on design processes in costume practice and the use of costume in training professional dancers. She has contributed to Luce Irigaray’s Building a New World (Palgrave) and The Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Ballet (pending 2020).
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