Dance: Nutcracker & Swansong
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- Created on: 14-05-13 17:43
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- Professional works
- Nutcracker
- Choreographer
- Matthew Bourne
- Company
- Adventures in Motion Pictures(first performance)
- Date of first performance
- August 1992
- Accompaniment
- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Classical, orchestral. Composed 1882 for the original Ivanov ballet
- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Costume
- Anthony Ward
- Colourful and over the top
- Cultural influences and literal references to sweets
- Lighting
- Howard Harrison
- Theatrical, helps to create atmosphere
- Set
- Anthony Ward
- Partly realistic but larger than life
- Scene 1: Austre, drab orphanage with iron beds
- Interval scene on the frozen lake
- Scene 2: Entered through a large mouth, represents Sweetieland, complete with a massive three tier wedding cake
- Staging
- Proscenium
- Scenario
- Matthew Bourne and Martin Duncan
- Dancers
- 24 dancers
- Dance style
- Contemporary and balletic.
- Exaggerated but realistic use of gestures
- Choreographic style
- A reworking of a traditional ballet.
- Narrative and comic influence by film and theatre.
- Theme
- The Nutcracker story retold with references to adolescence, escapism, fantasy and satire
- Starting point/inspiration
- The classical ballet and the music
- Images of a Victorian childhood
- Structure/sections
- Two acts with nine episodes
- Choreographer
- Swansong
- Choreographer
- Christopher Bruce
- Company
- Various, including Rambert Dance Company
- Costume
- Christopher Bruce
- Everyday clothes associated with roles
- Uniforms for the interrogators
- Jeans and T-shirt for the victim
- Lighting
- David Mohr
- Overhead lighting and a diagonal shaft of light to suggest natural light from upstage dress,
- Footlights create shadows
- Atmospheric
- Set
- Christopher Bruce
- Bare stage except for a chair, suggests a cell
- Interrogators always exit stage right(a door?)
- The chair has many purposes and is used symbolically as a weapon, a shield and shackles.
- Props(canes and red nose) are used to degrade the victim.
- Staging
- Proscenium
- Dancers
- Three men(also performed by three women, and a mixed cast)
- Dance style
- Contemporary, with physical contact and some balletic movements.
- Includes references to social and theatrical dance
- Choreographic style
- Episodic
- Dramatic
- Thematic
- Theme
- Human rights
- Prisoner of conscience
- Starting point/inspiration
- The work of Amnesty International
- Saying goodbye(to a career as a dancer)
- The experiences of Chilean poet Victor Jara
- The novel 'A Man' by Oriana Fallaci
- Structure/sections
- Introduction followed by seven sections
- The victim remains on stage througout
- Victim performs a solo in section 3 which has motifs that are repeated and/or developed in sections 5 and 7.
- Choreographer
- Nutcracker
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