Performance Costume, BA (Hons)

Course summary

This unique programme teaches costume design and costume making. Our curriculum includes:

• costume design for stage and screen

• costume making

• historical pattern cutting

• puppetry

• character and text analysis

• life drawing

• textiles

• millinery

• set design

• model making

• computer skills

Why Edinburgh?You will be encouraged to be an innovative, individual and adaptable designer and maker. Our programme is highly respected by the industry, demonstrated by our impressive graduate employment rates and the international profile of alumni work. We have many links with the film and stage industry. These provide invaluable work experience opportunities while you study, giving you the best chance of employment on graduation. What you will learnThrough concept, colour, cut and texture, performance costume designers' ideas can respond to:

• the written and spoken word

• music

• movement

• location

• historic period

You will learn to become skilled at producing accurate recreations of costumes as well as expressing imaginative flair. Performance costume crosses a range of art forms, including:

• theatre

• dance

• opera

• television

• film

• performance art

• music video

• installation

We encourage innovative and individual creative responses while balancing a strong craft and technical expertise. You will study Design and Screen Cultures courses alongside your studio work. These provide a contextual and theoretical understanding of contemporary design.

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