Swansong
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- Created on: 24-04-16 19:38
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- swansong
- choreography
- Christopher Bruce
- episodic, thematic and dramatic choreographic style
- contemporary with physical contact, balletic movement nd aspects of tap
- costume
- christopher bruce
- everyday clothes associated with roles
- guards wear uniform and baseball caps
- victim wears red t-shirt and fitted jeans
- lighting
- david mohr
- overhead lighting focuses on the area of the chair during interrogation and when victims is alone
- footlights create atmosphere
- diagonal shaft of light to suggest natural light from upstage left representing freedom
- set
- Christopher Bruce
- bare stage and single chair suggesting a prison cell and guards always enter from stage right suggesting a single door
- the chair is symbolic as a weapon, a shield and shackles
- canes and a red nose are used to degrade the victim
- black box
- accompaniment
- phillip chambon
- electroacoustic with digitally sampled sounds, vocals, a reed pipe and popular dance rhythms. unaccompanied interludes allow us to hear the tap section
- theme / starting points
- theme - human rights; prisoner of conscience
- the work of amnesty international, saying goodbye to a career as a dancer, the experiences of chilean poet victor jars and 'a man' by organa fallaci
- structure
- introduction followed by 7 sections
- the victim remains on stage throughout and performs a solo in section 3
- Untitled
- production / performance
- produced by various companies include. rambert
- first performed in 2987
- 3 dancers
- choreography
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