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The Importance Of Being A Performance Designer

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‘Being a performance designer’

Writing from experience, being a costume and set designer for performances is a really demanding and challenging job. I have to admit that when I was young, as an audience member, I could never have imagined how much work is really needed to be done in order to produce a performance show. Now, being on the other side, I am able to appreciate designer’s works, ambitions and goals; wanting to become really successful on this field.

Looking back on my first years of studying, I was lost and unsure of how to approach a given theme; to work in depth in order to create a piece that will successfully communicate my ideas. Through experience and practice, on my studies in ‘Visual Arts’ (at the ‘IB Moraitis School’ …show more content…

These guidelines are based on my experience, influenced by other designers and mainly taught from my University.

As examples I will use two projects, that I have done throughout my second year of the Bachelor degree, Living Image – Marcel Duchamp ‘Sonata’ and Design for dance – ‘SkingCage’. I chose those two because they have some similarities and some differences that I can use in order to explain my beliefs on how a performance designing team works, the journey that is needed to be taken in order to conclude to a successful piece, what failures they might face and how. I will divide the page into two sections: on the left the ‘Sonata’ project, working mainly on the costumes, and on the right the ‘SkinCage’ project working mainly on the sets.

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Introduction: Collaboration…………………………………………………………………………………… Communication…………………………………………………………………………….. Time……………………………………………………………………………………………
Phase 1: Preparation First meetings……………………………………………………………………………….. Approaching the theme………………………………………………………………… Inspiration and visualization………………………………………………………
Phase 2: Discussion of ideas and development: Working with the team………………………………………………………………………

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