Zuzu Hudek

Zuzu Hudek completed her Master’s degree in scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (SK), spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (PL) and completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Frank Mohr Instituut in Groningen (NL). Zuzu Hudek works as a president for Slovak OISTAT centre PRO SCENA and is a member of the OISTAT costume design group. Zuzu is a doctoral student at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, research field Costume Design. She is a stage and costume designer, educator, workshop facilitator and researcher. Her doctoral research “COSTUME ACTIVATION FOR ALL: Inclusive, cross-disciplinary methods for theatre training and practice”, brings these practices together through developing inclusive workshop methods for dance and performance. The project contributes to interdisciplinary artistic research by demonstrating how costume can become an active co-creator, supporting shared creative processes across performance disciplines. Building on the research discussed in Costume Agency (Lotker and Lindgren, 2023) and Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance (Marshall, 2025), this study shifts attention from analysing the role of costume in performance to developing workshop methodologies in which costume actively facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration.