In order to make this work, the couple has to wear multiple layers of clothing before the trick starts. When they enter the stage, you can even spot that their costumes are way too large, allowing them to wear several other outfits below. To make the illusion perfect, every single detail has to be planned: The performer knows all the costumes and learns how to remove them as fast as possible. An assistant often helps the actor by preparing the clothes and assisting him to remove the current costume.
For the classic performance of this trick, the costumes are removed one by one, making it look like the actor is able to change the entire outfit in seconds.
Every single piece the actors wear is specifically designed for this trick so it can be taken off as fast as possible. This is why you will see a lot of skirts in quick change performances: they cover the entire body and all of the other costumes below it , yet they can be taken off very fast.
When watching someone perform this trick, you will usually notice that the costumes get smaller and shorter over time. As already mentioned above, every single piece of the outfit is specifically designed so it can be taken off or on as fast as possible. Most skirts and other long costumes have a little break in the back or at the waistline, so the actor can rip them off very fast. Velcros, snaps, and magnets are often used to keep everything in place during the performance.
As soon as the clothing has to be removed, an assistant or the performer himself can simply pull once and the entire costume can be taken off.
For instance, this can be achieved by sewing only the collar of a shirt inside a sweater. All of these techniques make the entire quick change act possible and allows actors to change their costumes in seconds or even faster. In some cases, the actor needs to put a new set of clothing on as fast as possible. Many Russian artists brought Quick Change back to the circus in the middle of last century.
It was very popular but the quality of costumes are not very high. Originally this kinds of acts was started by the Russian couple Sudarchikovi ant at that time a really sensation. The couple changes at first Russian artists a high fashion collection.
In they won the silver clown in Monaco. The original Sudarchikovi Act started in He was dressed in black tailcoat, she is in a long gown. She goes in a tube and changes in one second to a cha-cha-cha-dress. Then she performs a few glove color changes. She steps into a screenfrom the right side to the left and now has on a latin dress.
After this follows a costume change in a fringed hulahoop. In a sub trunk illusion he changes his dress to a white tailcoat. She changes her dress twice in a cape of silk to a black and thento a red dress. Finally she changes her red dress in silver confetti to a white bridal gown.
This is the original Sudarchikovi Snowstorm effect. Another Dynasty is Monastyrsky. In this clip, there are obviously a number of hands from the black-clad kuroko helping the actor change so quickly. But even in basic changes like this one, one of the key facets of quick changing is clear — the strategic use of costumes that makes lightning-fast changes possible. From until , the finest quick-change artist of his day was the Italian actor and mime Leopold Fragile , who utilized quick-changes on stage and in front of the camera.
There are still a few minutes of these videos available. He was the first musician to turn this unexpected talent into a full-fledged nightly performance. At the height of his career, he was playing 60 different roles in the same program. Before we do though, understand this: it's impossible to know exactly how any given quick-change artist does their performance. Also, every magician does things a different way, so there is no one way that quick change artists do their magic trick.
But without further ado, here are some theories we have for how quick-change artists change so fast. Snaps or velcro are typically stitched into the side seams, and multiple sections are occasionally sewn together. A three-piece suit, shirt, and tie, for example, are formed into a single layer that can be torn off behind a tiny raised curtain in one moment by releasing the velcro.
The suit is tossed to the ground and covered by the curtain when the curtain falls on top of it, revealing whatever costume was beneath the outfit. Stunt doubles or even twins have been known to share the stage with magicians and do things like 'transporting' or even the classic 'sawing someone in half' is done with another person. There could be a way that the person is using a double to accomplish the desired effect.
And when your whole career is dedicated to magic, you can find some pretty clever ways of accomplishing this in a way that can trick many people! While we've given a we think solid overview of how quick-change artists change so fast, the reality is that no one really knows how modern quick-change artists like Lea Kyle pull of their act. There is lots of speculation and theory, but very little empirical evidence to back any of it up. Now we've got new research that says a thing or two.
As noted in the intro, we've known for a while that the ability to make a quick change is a very real thing.
What's been hard to understand is why some people are able to pull off quick-change acts and others are not.
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