Performance Costumes

I have decided that I would go for catchy and casual, yet suited clothing for our performances. We found that we cannot change whole costumes for each individual dance; because of the fact that my second main dancer Erica, and I will be on stage from the start to finish so we cannot be expected to be changing all our clothes in front of the audience. Therefore we have come to the solution that in the few main dances, we will be changing a small thing in the outfit for example adding a bandana or cap, taking the hood off, and at one point we have added it as part of our choreography to dance our way out of our hoodie without the performance losing it's pace or it looking shabby e.g stopping to take it off etc. So in general we are just re-arranging small accessories in various ways.

Here is a line-up of the costume we originally decided on and the order they are worn/changed in the performances:

*YG Medley*
1) Knock-Out [Walk in with hoods up, take them off, displaying 'Big Bang' member masks each dancer is wearing]
2) High High = Wearing Fixed Main Costume - Hoodies (Zip Up) ~ Yellow (Me)
                                                                                                       ~ White (Erica)
                                                                                                       ~ Grey (Hafsa)
                                                                                                       ~ Blue (Tahiya)
                                                                                                       ~ Black (Eisha)
                                                                        - Black Trousers/Skinny Jeans
3) Turn It Up = Same Fixed Outfit as above
                       - Cap with 'Heartbreaker'/ Heart shape on front (only addition) [Cap is turned backwards]
4) Heartbreaker = Fixed Outfit
                            - 'Heartbreaker'/ Heart Cap [Turn Cap to front]
5) I'll Be There - All wear Dark Blue (Navy)/ Black long sleeve tops under Hoodie
                          - Tahiya wear Military Jacket on top (the Navy one I own at home)
[Hoodies are taken off: ~ Rubina (GD) & Erica (T.O.P) dance out of them on opposite sides of the stage
                                    ~ Ash (V.I.) & Hafsa (D-Lite) crawl on stage
                                    ~ Tahiya dances to front]
                          - Skinny Jeans from Fixed Outfit
                          - No Caps on
6) Just A Feeling = Same outfit as 'I'll Be There' Performance above
                             - Bandannas or Taliban Scarfs (different colors for each member)
                             - 'Heartbreaker'/ Heart Caps on

We matched each costume or accessory etc that we added, removed or changed in each performance to suit the theme of the dance, for example Taeyang's 'I'll Be There' & 'Just A Feeling' routines have simple yet smart clothing: the long sleeve top and skinny black jeans. The navy military jacket gives the outfit an edgy, strong, tough and hard look, as the song and dance is. Taeyang who created and performed this song also gives off these kinds of vibes to everyone. So the outfit is as crucial as anything else to reflect; the song, the choreography of the dance, and the Performer Taeyang. All the members are wearing the same colored long sleeve top so that it is suited and matching, instead of messy with random colors. It shows the order and consistency of the theme of the song and dance. The edginess emphasizing the manly, charismatic and chic choreography and creating a bigger impact about the serious storyline behind the song (in the music video). In the same way, different colored costumes and retro styles of clothing would create a happy, fun and experimental feel to the dance.

Taeyang wearing an outfit from the original 'I'll Be There' Music video. Our costume was inspired from this, but noting our budget we kept it simple. The back up dancers are behind him (though we will not be using those costumes).

Another still image from the music video of 'I'll Be There' displaying the back up dancers role and the strained contact between Taeyang and the back up dancers. Also showing the serious, dark feel of the song concept.

The costumes for the 'Teen Top & Infinite Collaboration' Stage and 'Finale 2PM' Stage had not been completely decided, but as we had a lot of costume changes already, we thought it'd be best to just take off the bandanna and caps at the end of the 'YG Medley' Stage and wear the outfits we are wearing already for those last performances, in the next 2 stages to save time as we cannot change fully on stage like we mentioned before, and also the costume expenses would be too much.

However the costumes have been changed, as I'll talk in more detail about in the next Costume Update post.