Outline
The Edinburgh College of Art Performance Costume Programme is renowned for its holistic approach to costume design and making.
We encourage you to make individual and innovative creative responses, grounded in strong craft practice and practical expertise.
This programme will make sure you are well prepared for a successful career in the stage and screen industries.
The curriculum also provides you with core costume cut and construction skills and techniques, both historical and contemporary.
Visual and analytics research practice is developed together with:
- costume making
- historical pattern cutting
- puppetry
- character and text analysis
- life drawing
- textiles
- millinery
- set design
- model making
- computer skills
Through 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.
The courses provide an opportunity for a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of costume design for a range of performance media, providing you with excellent training across all relevant art forms, such as:
- theatre
- dance
- opera
- television
- film
- performance art
- music video
- installation
The highlight of the academic year is our renowned performance costume shows where students work with professionals and performers to showcase their costumes to the public and industry.
Our graduates are highly sought after due to the flexibility and balance of skills gained, with impressive graduate employment rates and international profile of our alumni's work.
