Sunday, April 18, 2010

What is a Quick Change?

Quick-change is a performance art in which a performer usually a magician, dancer or ice skater changes quickly within a split second from one costume into another costume in front of the audience. This is usually performed under cover of an object like standing in a hoop of fabrica mylar curtained hoop, behind an unbrella, large feather fans, stage smoke or evena shower of glitter. Choreography and dance are usally combined into the performance to make the act more spectacular.

The art of Quick Change is several hundred years old and reaches back as far as the 15th century. The Japanese kabuki theater started with crude performances by a shrine dancer Akuna in the year 1603, although the use of Quick Change was most probably not added until after 1629 when women were banned from performing kabuki.

Since I am doing reseaches on Ninja, it is good that the quick change trick has a Japanese history background.


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