still life at the penguin cafe

still life at the penguin cafe

1. Music

   • Penguin café orchestra

2. Composer

   • Simon Jeffs
   • combining classical and rock and country influences

3. Set designer and costumes

   • Hayden Griffin
     • combines animal characteristics in a dream like way
     • includes the backdrops and the café scene
     • varied costumes throughout the dance including animal masks and human clothes (penguin café scene)

4. Lignting

   • John B Read
     • start and end used to enhance the mood
     • spotlight follows each dancer
     • light for first half and dark for the second half to represent a dramatic mood

5. Premiere

   • 9th march 1988 Royal Ballet (Royal Opera House)
     • proscenium staging

6. Choreographer

   • David Bintley
   • the dancers in the dance where 9 soloists and corps de ballet

7. starting points

   • music (pco), Doomsday book of animals, paintings by Emily Young
     • paintings by Emily young gave the inspiration for combining animals and humans in a dream like way

8. Sections

   • The great Auk, Utah longhorn ram, Texan Kangaroo rat, Humbolt's long-nosed skunk flea, Southern cape zebra, Rainforest people, Brazillian Woolly monkey and the finale - The flood and The Ark
     • introduction followed by 8 scenes

9. Dance style

   • Modern ballet, Morris, Latin American, African and references to contemporary
     • endangered species theme
     • comes from influences from the geographical location of each animal