Dance - Ghost dances
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- Created on: 08-05-13 17:26
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- Ghost Dances
- Choreographer: Christopher Bruce
- Company: Various including Rambert Dance Company
- First performance: 3rd July, 1981
- Dance Style: a blend of contemporary (Graham-influenced) and ballet with elements of folk andsocial styles.
- Choreographic Style: thematic with narrative elements. Strong characterisation
- Theme: Political oppression in Chile
- Starting point: the music and South American rituals and culture
- Structure: 7 sections
- Accompaniment: South American songs & folk tunes by Inti-Illamani (Arranged by Nicholas Mojsiejenko) and wind effects
- Costume: Belinda Scarlett
- Ghosts wear wigs and rags and have skull-like masks and bodies painted to suggest bones and muscles. The Dead wear gender-specific, everyday clothes suggesting different walks of life, each wears a unique costume.
- Lighting: Nick Chelton
- Gloomy and shadowy, side lighting highlights the ghosts. Brighter for folk-typedances performed by the Dead. Lighting changes signify deaths.
- Set: Christopher Bruce
- The painted backdrop represents a rocky plain and a cave opening. In the distancethere is water and mountains. There are rock-like structures on stage.
- Staging: Proscenium
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