COSTUME

Costume for theater refers to the distinctive dress used by an actor in order to authenticate a role in a performance.

In the ethnic rituals, the babaylan or shaman usually wore special costumes.This may have consisted of animal guises, symbols of power or magic to portray the babaylan’s powerIn 1952, Pigafetta described the two shamans performing the ritual in the Visayas.One wore a kerchief with two horns on her forehead waving another kerchief in her hands as she danced.

For the mimetic jousts, games and dances, the tribal costume– of datu, warrior, maiden– was the stage costume. When one celebrated for war or the hunt, courtship or marriage, one used the clothes and properties appropriate to the activity and occasion.

• Bamboo poles for making holes in the ground, basket with rice seedlings, winnowing baskets and

rice pestles are some props used for the rice-planting dances of the Bagobo.

• Enactment of these is done outside the rhythm of that daily life.

In Folk drama, the costume was dictated by the material of drama.

Since saint’s statues and their estampitas were the most accessible pictorial sources for costuming like the images of Lenten processions.

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Moros

Costume in the komedya are usually made of rich materials and decorated with embroidery, sequins, beads, plumes and feathers

The sarswela and the drama They draw plots and characters from

Philippine life, were the first to present characters in the clothing of their time.

Cerrada Saya

KIMONA KAMISA CHINO

On the modern stage, costume came to assume roles beyond character identification.

Costumes to indicate period and

character , that are symbol and image.

Within the range and repertoire of such contemporary costume designers as Salvador Bernal and Amiel Leonardia.

The Costumes of the contemporary sarswela in Philippines.

In the short dula-dula and in most street plays

In Mindanao Council for people’s Culture’s Bulawan

Costume design in Philippine theater has thus profited from the wardrobes of the past,

the lifestyles of the present, and the

visions of playwrights and designers.