Are Chilren Expected To Apply Their Iwn Stage Makeup

IS MAKEUP NECESSARY FOR YOUNG DANCERS?

Now with children of my ain I sympathise protecting our immature ones and what we do and don't allow. However today I'm going to bust some misconceptions virtually brand up! (I hope).

I have heard lots of concerns over the years…

Children shouldn't have to wear makeup.

Why are nosotros subjectifying them at a young historic period?

What are we teaching our children if nosotros are asking them to put make up on to dance on phase and feel pretty?

Let's take a step back for a moment.

Dance competitions or performances are non a beauty competition.

The words we say to our children before they step out on stage is equally important.

Are nosotros only saying "yous look so pretty" or "wow, you lot look amazing darling" when they are in costume and take make upwardly on?

Even though we don't hateful anything past information technology, the little comments said with make upwards on and off make a huge deviation.

When nosotros brand a bigger deal when the makeup is on than when it is off (considering they should already know they are pretty without it) should be idea of a little more consciously.

The origins of phase makeup engagement back to the early Romans and Greeks where masks were worn to portray the roles of the characters.

And then flour was applied as make up in the Baroque theatre. In the 1800's the Orient techniques were adapted from the Kabuki theatre Japan and Chinese operas.

The term Ham actor came from performers using horrible smelling rinds from ham and lamb fat, it was used as a base of operations to apply pigments from dirt and chalk until they came up with much nicer alternatives and then named "Phase MAKE UP"

Make up was hard to find and only in pocket-size chemist stores, they were normally sold in a very solid form given the proper name "greasepaint, you would utilise it on the face up in streaks and and then smooth with your fingers that were dipped in water (Haven't we got it good today!).

The exciting history of makeup from blush and lipstick, eyeliner and mascara is very absurd and will put in another web log for yous.

Let'due south get back to the basics of why stage make upwardly was introduced.

Originally y'all would look at the venue in which you were performing, every bit a rule of thumb almost 12m away the dancers confront starts to disappear. Most theatre stages are most 12m in length from wing to wing (roughly to give you lot an thought). And then, where the estimate is sitting in the comp is at least that for most theatres. Unless you are at a school stage and so you might exist closer.

At that place was once appointed a theatre make-up creative person. Their job was to work with the layout of the theatre, look at how many people the theatre seated, and what the shape of the hall is and piece of work with the lighting technicians. The 5^th and 12^thursday rows near the 12m marking away was where the "of import" people were seated. These were the critics. Those sitting closer to the phase saw more of the effects and those in the balcony saw less. More pinkish makeup was used for woman and more scarlet for the men.

Lighting is and then of import when looking at makeup awarding. In the 1800's as many every bit twoscore lighting men were stationed through the theatre to control the lighting and today everything can exist done by a push button of a button.

Makeup application for the dancer should be different when they are on a stage, on a photo shoot or in person shut up like a shopping centre. The idea of "phase make upwardly" is actually to make you expect every bit close to the real you lot as possible.

When y'all are on a stage with good lighting, your features can be washed out, Forehead tin go on forever if eye brows aren't conspicuously defined. Optics can await closed and asunder on phase.

When a parent has concern almost make up for their little one, at our studio I ever leave the option for the parent to decide, especially if they are very young. If however the dancer has spent quite a lot of time at the studio, the costumes accept cost a fair amount of money and photos are looking at beingness purchased then I would propose giving valid reasons for the makeup application.

Without makeup, your kid will await done out, eyes closed and features all lost on phase making them a lilliputian unrecognisable. Advanced techniques for jawline shading and nose shaping can be washed but just simply applying makeup to center brows, blush in the correct position and the right shade of brand up on the centre lids can make a huge deviation.

For photo shoots make upward of different colours works fabulously. For stage the bawdy colours such as browns, taupes and golds look best on a broad diverseness of dancers.

I have brown eyes and putting purple or pinks on my optics incorrectly can end upwardly looking bruised or punched in the face. When we are asking parents to practice make up awarding and not brand up artists, this tin end upwards doing more harm than good.

Having a foundation shade if your skin tone is light, in a shade darker ( in a warm more yellow color) tin can frequently work well on stage and those with olive or darker complexion, foundation tone matching or a piffling more than warmer slightly off color again can look quite overnice.

If a dancer has their eyes closed on stage or the appearance of being closed they are disconnected to the audition and that is the dancer's ultimate goal. "to connect". Applying make up so we can actually run across the dancer then takes the whole beauty pageant argument out of the equation.

Makeup awarding for children should not be to subjectify the dancer or to make them feel more beautiful. It should be taught that information technology is part of the costume and without it the whole process is compromised.

I promise this has changed some views on make up or just reaffirmed them.

I'll be posting more tips on make upward in later on blogs, so comment on what you would like to know more than of! Be yourself as everyone else is already taken, retrieve don't blend in, stand out and be Phase Ready!

TINA SPARKS