Nutcracker!

Basic facts that you need to know for your written Dance GCSE paper for the set work Nutcracker! by Matthew Bourne

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  • Created on: 14-05-13 13:21
Choreographer
Matthew Bourne
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Company
First performed by Adventures in Motion Pictures. Now performed by New Adventures
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Dance style
Contemporary and balletic. Exaggerated but realistic use of gestures
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Choreographic style
A reworking of a traditional ballet. Narrative and comic. Influenced by film and theatre. Close relationship between dance and music.
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Starting point
The classical ballet and the music. Images of Victorian childhood
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Theme
The Nutcracker story retold with reerences to adolescence, escapism, fantasy and satire
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Structure
Two acts with nine episodes
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Dancers
24, male and female
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Accompaniment
Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky
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Describe accompaniment
Classical, orchestral. Composed in 1892 for the orginal Ivanov ballet
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Costume designer
Anthony Ward
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Set designer
Anthony Ward
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Describe costume
Colourful and 'over the top' to show characters. Cultural influences and literal references to sweets.
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Lighting
Howard Harrison. Theatrical to help create atmosphere
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Desribe set
Partly realistic but larger than life and almost cartoon-like.
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Describe set in Orphanage Scene
An austere, drab orphanage with iron beds. There are cracks in the wall and it looks destitute and grey.
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Describe set in Wedding Scene
Pink clouds on the backdrop complete with a mjassive three-tier wedding cake with sweet and sickly decorations.
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Staging
Proscenium
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Scenario
Matthew Bourne and Martin Duncan
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First performed by Adventures in Motion Pictures. Now performed by New Adventures

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