Anthropomorphism.
The assignment of human shape and attributes to gods, animals an inanimate objects.
Attributes and Signifiers: Shamanistic.
- Cave paintings where the first sort of anthropomorphism, hunters would create painting of animals that they hunt, giving them human like features such as face. This most like was because the hunters desired the strength and power of the animals that they hunted.
-Shamans worn the skin of an animal so similar reasons, to gain the power of the animal and process the magical powers.
Attributes and Signifiers: Symbolic.
Jean Berain, mask maker: Late 17th Century.
> Not wanting to become the mask but just to wear it.
Nicholas Remisoff
> Costume of a violin.
> Tragedy of the Cello.
> 1927
Attributes and Signifiers:.. Embodied.
- Traditional Pantomime.
- Actor becomes the animal/ inanimate object.
- Completely embodied.- Beatrix Potter - Jemima Puddle Duck.
- Royal Ballet Tales of Beatrix Potter.
- The actor is complete enclosed in the costume and then acts as the animal and character.
> Costumes need to be light, the animal heads especially.
> Made of stage gauze, which allows the actor or dancer to see through when dancing so they can see where they need to travel to.
Jean Hugo, Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel, 1921
Costume for a Lion
Costume for an Ostrich
Ferdinand Leger, 1923
Referential:
- refer to the animals or objects that you are trying to convey.
- Research and using observational drawings study the characteristics of the animal/ objects, to get a better understanding of the animal/ object.
E. Mcknight Kauffer, Checkmate, 1937.
Black Queen costume
- Signified mostly in the headdress.
Marie- Jeanne Lecca, The Circle
Julie Taymore and Richard Hudson - Giraffes from The Lion King.
- Actors being the animal.
- Whilst eh lions are more puppets.
John McForlane - Mice and Frog for Cinderella - Birmingham Royal Ballet.
- Studies/ drawings - Look much deeper and harder. Observational.
- Comeli, 1906 - Runner Bean Costume.
- Wilhelm, 1884 - Sallow Costume and Goldfish.
Attributes and Signifiers: Metaphoric.
- Paul Edwardo - Papagena and Papageno, The Magic Flute
- Marie- Jeanne Lecca - 2008,
2009, The Crow and Falcon
2013, Lulu
^ Human body drawing with a picture of an animal head that suits the character.
(White act on Ballet.)
-Terry Bortier
- The Swan of Tuoneic
- Robert Alsop
- Marie Bjonson - Cunning Little Vixon.
- Peter Farley - The Ox, From the Year of the Pig.
- David Collis
-Colin Richman
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo... http://www.trockadero.org/
Q: What are the character's doing on stage? (Working within the costume.)
Q: What is Grimm saying to me?
Q: How can I relate it to today?
Q: What is the difference between Anthropomorphism and puppetry?
- Often used in panto's
- Joey from /Warhorse'
- Puppetry - External puppeteers/ animators.
Q: How do you want your costume to be read/ interpreated?
- Water colour - Decay (=more energy in the drawings.)
Q: How does your performer feel in the costume?
- Restricted in their movements?
Q: Where abouts do you want to draw the line?
- Embodied
- Small pieces of symbolism such as pig noses?
Q: Is it funny? Is is Serious? Is it dark?
Q: What is around today What do we wear to imitate animals/ things?
- Cocktail party. - Peacocks?
- Latin Skirts? - Savannah grasses
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