// Please listen with headphones for this film //
Our collection of Theatre & Performance objects includes props and costumes from many iconic moments in the history of circus, dance, drama, film, opera, pantomime, popular music – and much more. Often these objects played their part in a spectacular visual and auditory experience, but now – when they're displayed in our galleries behind glass – they are normally silent.
We invited sound designer and performance-maker Julie Rose Bower to document our preparation for a new gallery display, and in this film we see and hear conservator Susana Fajardo working on pieces in Textiles Conservation.
This film features:
Belinda Wright’s ‘Harlequinade’ tutu –
00:34
Vivien Leigh’s ‘Cleopatra’ cloak –
01:24
Sandie Shaw’s ‘Eurovision’ dress –
04:34
PJ Harvey’s ‘Lyrics’ dress –
12:00
Adzogbo raffia leg wraps –
14:30