Artifical Things
- Created by: emilylhar13
- Created on: 28-09-16 08:51
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- Artifical Things
- Stimulus
- Snow globe
- snow covered urban landscape
- Isolated figure perched on a broken wheelchair
- snow covered urban landscape
- Paintings by Goran Djurovic
- Influenced the design, costume and choreographic images
- Dancers personal experiences provided inspiration for the choreography
- Snow globe
- Choreographer
- Lucy Bennett
- Works in a company which has people with diversity
- She developed, defined and encapsulated her love for expressing human stories through dance
- Stopgap
- Resident choreographer
- Changed company
- Conceive original ideas
- Takes leadership over proccesses
- Works in a company which has people with diversity
- Lucy Bennett
- Company
- Stopgap Dance Company
- Employs disabled and non-disabled dancers
- Committed to making ways to integrate disabled and non-disabled people through dance
- Nurturing disabled and non-disabled artists for making inclusive works
- Find innovative ways to collaborate
- Creates exhilarating dance pieces for national and international tours
- Employs disabled and non-disabled dancers
- Stopgap Dance Company
- Choreographic intention
- Scene three
- About the dancers coming to terms with life's limitations
- Characters acting out the scene
- Still constricted to the snowglobe
- Resolution happens when they join together and the scene comes to a close
- Surrender to the fact that we have to live with individual regrets
- Scene three
- Structure
- Scene 3
- Opens with 2 duets
- First Duet
- Ground based
- Involves a dismantled wheelchair
- Second duet
- Influenced by the dancers
- Improvising around the idea of inviting touch, leading and following
- First Duet
- Group unites after the duets
- Ground based contact to stay connected
- Manipulates the wheelchair
- Trio after group dance
- Dancing with Laura's wheelchair
- Explores the movement of the chair
- Each dancer takes control over movement of the chair
- Explores the movement of the chair
- Dancing with Laura's wheelchair
- Portrait re-enactment
- Influenced by Djurovic
- Find stillness as if frozen in the snowglobe
- Solo (David Toole)
- Simple
- Focuses on facial expressions and physical storytelling
- Tribute to his father
- Opens with 2 duets
- Scene 3
- Aural Settings
- Andy Higgs
- Played piano from the inside and out
- Creates a cold ambient sound
- Sound of paper snow
- Sound effects
- Distant rumbles
- Wind
- Footsteps through the snow
- Played piano from the inside and out
- Futuristic atmosphere
- 'The Sunshine of Your Smile'
- Used distortedly
- Last section uses full version
- Andy Higgs
- Costume
- Designed by Anna Jones
- Merge with backdrop
- Blue and green
- Paint dripping look on garments
- Stuck in Djurovic's painting
- Outer garments in precious scenes removed from this scene
- Time has moved on
- Lighting
- Designed by Chahine Yavrovan
- Focuses on 1 or 2 spots for most of it
- Opens out in middle
- Blue wash
- Warm and cool side lighting
- Closes down to another spot for the final solo
- Staging/Set
- Designed by Anna Jones
- Influenced by the 'Unknown secrets collection'
- Djurovic
- Heavy backdrop
- Paint dripping
- Scenes 1 and 2: this is created by painting thick coloured stripes
- Paint dripping
- Scene 3: this is removed to create a calmer scene
- Changes the mood
- Paper snow scattered all over the ground
- Diagonal to the vitrine
- In front of the vitrine, there are 2 stools with a headless suit on a third stool
- Dance floor is a light grey
- Around the edge is a wooden frame
- Refects colour, shape and restriction of the vitrine
- Emphasises the snow globe idea
- Refects colour, shape and restriction of the vitrine
- Around the edge is a wooden frame
- Choreographic approach
- Collaborative approach
- Dancers encouraged to actively contribute
- Scene 3 was inspired by Laura's wheelchair movement
- Collaborative approach
- Stimulus
- UK Premier: 5th February 2014
- Dance Style: Inclusive contemporary dance
- Dancers: 2 male/2 female
- Time:20 minutes
- Performance environment: Proscenium arch ( normal )
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