Ghost Dances

Ghost Dances

1. Choreographer

   • Christopher Bruce
     • thematic and episodic with narrative elements
       • strong characterisation

2. 1981

3. costume

   • Belinda Scarlett
   • ghosts have skull like masks
     • bodies painted to suggest bones and muscles
     • they wear rags and wigs
       • the dead wear gender specific clothes to suggest different walks of life
         • each of the dead wears a unique costume

4. Lighting

   • Nick Chelton
   • gloomy and shadowy
     • side lighting highlights the ghosts
     • brighter for folk type dances performed by the dead
     • lighting changes to signify deaths

5. Set

   • Christopher Bruce
     • painted backdrop
       • rocky plain and cave opening
     • in the distance there is water and mountains
     • rock like structures

6. Proscenium staging

7. 11 dancers

   • 6 men
     • 5 women

8. Theme

   • Political oppression in Chile

9. Accompaniment

   • south american folk tunes- inti illamani