Costume is a style of dress sense which a person wears to help spectators perceive a character which they are intending to create. Costume almost helps someone to stereotype the person wearing it, allowing them to create an opinion without even knowing the person. It allows people to ‘judge a book by its cover’.
Costume helps to create a scene. A story can be told without even knowing what is going to happen, just by looking at the costumes which a performer is wearing.
A Time Machine by Nina Ayres is a great example of how costume can create a performance. Each aspect of the costume was done deliberately so the audience could create the best understanding of what was being performed:
Another company we researched for costume was Creation Theatre Company. Especially their Midsummer Night’s Dream performance in Oxford.
Ilotopie was a company that I researched as I believe it has the most amazing costumes which help to create spectacular performances. They work on the frontier of individual and social barriers.
Ilotopie create a fluxus, they introduce art into life and life into art. The video above shows a man in a cage, he is trapped, not free, representing his everyday life of work and mundane activities.
Costume is a way of showing how street theatre and visual art can work together.
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