Costume (performing arts)
In the performing arts, a costume is a special form of clothing and jewelry for the performers . In addition, hairstyle or body painting can be part of the costume.
Costume designers may be responsible for designing the costumes . Costumes are used particularly extensively in costume films and as theatrical costumes.
History and function
Theatrical costumes have been worn by the performers since ancient Greece . A one-piece full-body costume allowed for quick role changes in the Greek tragedy . Jewelry, colors and other accessories allowed the transformation into different figures.
Actor in a tragedy, 3rd cent. Chr.
Actors in a Roman mosaic from Pompeii, 1st century AD
Until the Renaissance , the costume was used as a purely serving clothing: Costumes are a means to create the visual impression of a certain culture in connection with a certain time period or to strengthen it together with the stage design . In addition, costumes make it possible to make statements about age, personality, social class, occupation and gender role of the characters as well as about the time of day, the season and the weather conditions of the scene. In the Renaissance, there was also the task of illustrating different nationalities and also character traits. In contrast to the costume that is worn in carnival , the costume in the performing arts is not an end in itself, but serves to support the figure. Modern well-known examples are the costumes of the Star Trek characters Seven of Nine and Diana Troi. The aforementioned in a string body with an integrated corset under a catsuit and the latter with a corset and push-up bra under a blue dress with a high slit that consisted of a leotard and skirt like a ballet costume . This also prevented the pantyhose, unreinforced to the waist, from sliding down. In addition, costumes are also used to express certain forms of expression, attitudes, and protests.
Costume design (around 1807)
Costume design (around 1929)
Drawing of a ballet costume , 1890
Illusion of nudity (under transparent fabrics) that was deliberately destroyed here by using black tights instead of flesh-colored ones
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literature
- Ulrike Dembski (Ed.): Dressing up - transforming - seducing . Stage costumes from the collection of the Austrian Theater Museum. Exhibition in the Austrian Theater Museum. Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85033-468-6 .
- Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 11, Leipzig 1907, pp. 537-539 ( zeno.org )
- Annemarie Bönsch: Costume. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The serving skin ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )