Matthew Bourne and Ghost dances

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  • Created on: 18-04-23 09:29

Sleeping Beauty and Ghost dances

Similarities

  • SLEEPING BEAUTY:
  • Connection between dance intensity and the movement during fairy solos
  • The connection between characters was shown through touch, Aurora and  Leo were playful and almost always touching However her and Caradoc were drawnback and never touching
  • Connection Between Red and evil
  • Connection between lighting and Carabosse/Caradoc, darker dreary lighting when on stage and switch to light when good characters came on stage
  • Parental connections
  • Leo and Lilac- running scene- in the woods
  • Lilac turned leo into a vampire which solidified Leos love story
  • Fairies and Aurora
  • Cyclical narrative baby at the start baby at the end
  • Same music when baby aurora is introduced when adult aurora is introduced
  • SWAN LAKE:
  • Connection between mum and prince
  • Leads to prince and Swan
  • First of its time, traditional ballet story modernised.
  • Connection between original ballets and modernised ballet (Tchaikovsky)
  • Lighting changes
  • connection between sexuality of creator and sexuality of main characters
  • Connection between inner and outer
  • Jealousy of the prince aimed at the promiscously dressed woman at the bar.

Differences

  • GHOST DANCES:
  • Christopher Bruce
  • Torture to chilean people by Pinochet
  • Letter from Joan Jara to christopher bruce (geographical)
  • connection between movement and the characters relationship. dance, canon, sychonization.
  • Connection between location and costume
  • History of south America
  • Middle of the performance, lady in red is Joan jara, Joane died softly and Victor died brutality
  • Connection between masculinity being rough and femininity being weak and feeble.
  • Connection between the dead villagers and the ghosts
  • Between the supernatural and cultural links (day of the dead )
  • Physical contact between the living and dead, underworld and the overworld.
  • Connection between the influence and the story music of victor used in show.
  • Futility of war
  • General Augusto pinochet
  • SHADOWS:
  • Connection to world war two
  • 18/19th century (historical)
  • Family is waiting to be taken to a concentration camp
  • Forms of a neo-classical language (cultural) - uses this to connect the themes to the audience
  • Easily interpreted as connection to the audience
  • Childhood connection
  • Family connection shown through movements
  • All of his work comes from the modern workplace and it crititcs politics
  • Duet between mum and dad and how Matthew uses connection though touching (physical contact)
  • Connection with music and dancers - Bourne only choreographs when he is in the studio
  • Influenced by the dancers
  • Characters connection with the audience during their movement
  • Connection between dance styles
  • Numbers of dancers impact piece
  • Simplistic set so audience has connection to the characters, not the set
  • The use of shadows demonstrates the fear
  • Lighting where the light is used to show someone is walking
  • Influenced by the era of work while he was training
  • Pictural tells stories
  • Wants his piece to be musical
  • Connection on the floor in their solos
  • Connection with props through piece - use of the table and chairs are a symbol of the everyday life furniture and a pedestrian life.
  • Connection with the piece
  • Connection with space
  • Didn't want the characters to make strong expressions because dance should be talking

Overall comparison

Three Ghosts, Three Carrabosse sidekicks

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