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Pirates & pompoms : how to make children's toys and costumes
Follow a few steps to create handmade costumes, toys, and props, and you may keep children entertained with make-believe worlds all day long. Only basic cutting, sticking, and sewing skills are required. Focusing on these three popular themes (pirates, circus, and woodland animals), projects include eye patches and a telescope, stuffed animal friends, leaf bunting, circus ringmaster's hat, and a big-top canopy den.
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Costume in Performance
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation, and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the “fashion plays” to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body, and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume’s ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being, and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK.
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Last-but-not-least Lola and the cupcake queens
Lola Zuckerman handles such third-grade problems as her growing jealousy over her friends' other friendships and remembering her lines for the class play.
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The Italian Costumes Study by Victor Meirelles
This article analyzes twenty-one works belonging to the collection “The Italian Costumes,” made by Victor Meirelles in Italy between 1853 and 1856 and preserved in the museum named after the artist in Florianopolis, Brazil. The analysis focused on the identification of the common components of the works in terms of six aspects: ambience, position, body, costumes, colors, and shapes. In this article, only the first two aspects are addressed. The traces that indicate some of the artist’s motivation when producing the collection are highlighted: the conjectural, which is linked to the sale of engravings of regional human types in Italy in the nineteenth century; the structural, or the education offered during the artist’s era; and the ideological, including national and romantic propositions, biased toward the Nazarene movement. From the analysis of ambience and position, two hypotheses are discussed to demonstrate that the collection is not only focused on the improvement of the drapery technique but also a source of income and inspiration for Victor Meirelles that defined his poetics during his life. The divulgation of the results also aims to methodize the collection’s knowledge and encourage deeper studies of the same or similar collections. Future work is justified and important, given the fact that the current research is the only work of this magnitude about the Italian Costumes collection.
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Costuming the Shakespearean Stage
Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary audiences. Robert Lublin's new study considers royal proclamations, religious writings, paintings, woodcuts, plays, historical accounts, sermons, and legal documents to investigate what Shakespearean actors actually wore in production and what cultural information those costumes conveyed. Four of the chapters of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage address 'categories of seeing': visually based semiotic systems according to which costumes constructed and conveyed information on the early modern stage. The four categories include gender, social station, nationality, and religion. The fifth chapter examines one play, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, to show how costumes signified across the categories of seeing to establish a play's distinctive semiotics and visual aesthetic.
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Lucy's tricks and treats
Halloween is near and Bobby has a great idea for costumes for himself and his dog, Lucy, but when he brings Lucy's costume to school for show-and-tell it disappears, and Bobby suspects an unfriendly new student took it.
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AS POÉTICAS CÊNICAS E O FIGURINO: UMA ANÁLISE DOS PROCESSOS CRIATIVOS DE GABRIEL VILLELA
This research is dedicated to a theoretical analysis of the creation of the costume, aiming to point out its importance in the construction of the character and its identification, as a linguistic and communicative element, through a bibliographical overview, which permeates some scenic aesthetics. The study reveals that this costume would have a transformative and vast character, which changes according to the needs in which it is inserted, thus being able to have independence without becoming incoherent. Keywords: Costume design; Scenic language; Poetics; Theater. Dessa forma, o traje seria uma apropriação individual, de breve ou longa duração, da indumentária ou da moda, assumindo um papel social, de acordo com o contexto em que está inserido.
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Michi challenges history : from farm girl to costume designer to relentless seeker of the truth: the life of Michi Weglyn
\"A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television personalities of the '50s and early '60s. In 1968, after a televised statement by the US Attorney General that concentration camps in America never existed, Michi embarked on an eight-year solo quest through libraries and the National Archives to expose and account for the existence of the World War II camps where she and other Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Her research became a major catalyst for passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the US government admitted that its treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II was wrong. Thoroughly researched and intricately told, Michi Changes History is a masterful portrayal of one woman's fight for the truth-and for justice\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Designing Hollywood
Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood.As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by foregrounding fashion.
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