Rooster The Dance

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  • Created on: 11-04-22 15:57
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  • The Dance
    • The men perform the most energetic choreography, deliberately showing off, but several sections, notably ‘Not Fade Away’, ‘Paint It Black’, ‘Play with Fire’ and the revised version of ‘As Tears Go By’ end with the men being put down by the women.
    • Motifs
      • Rooster Strut
        • The walk self-evidently mimics the way in which cockerels move.
        • a stylised walk for the men in which the toes of one foot slide along the floor, the head and neck jut forward, and the rest of the dancer’s body is pulled towards the outstretched extremities.
      • The male dancers perform grooming gestures, slicking down their hair; straightening their cuffs and sleeves; and, most frequently, adjusting their ties
        • At times they do so while performing the ‘Rooster strut’.
      • The dancer holds onto the bottom of his jacket lapels so that his arms are bent into the triangular shape of a chicken’s compact wing
      • He lifts his elbows as he jumps so that they appear to flap as he makes fluttering or ‘bicycling’ gestures with his feet.
      • There are also several characteristic jumps for the male dancers one of which suggests a chicken trying to fly with his stubby wings.
    • Structure
      •  Although each song provides the focus for a distinctive theme or mood they are sometimes linked – the end of one dance leads seamlessly into the next.
      • The dance is constructed of eight distinct numbers, each performed to a separate song.
      • Sections could easily stand alone, but as a sequence they build up the atmosphere and feel of the ‘swinging’ 1960s and contemporary attitudes
    •  There is repeated use of the floor on which dancers of both sexes roll and turn. 
    • everyday gestures, such as the handshake in ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, develop into interesting movements.
    • Also repeated in several sections are the extravagant courtly gestures suggestive of the steps of a minuet with its bows and flourishes

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