Post Gazette: Designing costumes for acrobats and jugglers, aerialists and contortionists comes with certain rules. For example, some "Cirque Dreams" acts demand exposed wrists and ankles -- skin being better than Spandex when it comes to holding onto a partner while dangling from a trapeze. Those little necessities aside, a costume designer's imagination can run wild.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Spandex and crystals give 'Cirque Dreams' its dazzle
Post Gazette: Designing costumes for acrobats and jugglers, aerialists and contortionists comes with certain rules. For example, some "Cirque Dreams" acts demand exposed wrists and ankles -- skin being better than Spandex when it comes to holding onto a partner while dangling from a trapeze. Those little necessities aside, a costume designer's imagination can run wild.
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I'm so glad to see another costumes world article, because there are whole sets of rules that often go ignored when you are just looking at pretty costumes (something I am definitely guilty of). Designing for Cirque must be a dream come true for this designer, and I'm sure that her years designing for ballet informed her technique. It's not necessarily just about your vision, in that case, since the pieces have to move with the dancers/performers and, most importantly, can't come into the way of their safety. With the stunts that Cirque du Soleil performers are pulling off, I feel like I would be so nervous to be responsible for what they are wearing, because a snag on something could, in this circumstance, be fatal.
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