Dance: Still life at the Penguin cafe

Dance: Still life at the Penguin cafe

1. Key facts

   • Choreographed for: Royal Ballet
   • Choreographed by: David Bintley
   • Composer: Simon Jeffes
   • Design and Costume: Hayden Griffin
   • Theme: Animals on the 'Risk Of Extinction' List (Except the Great Auk, already extinct)
   • Stimulus: The Doomsday Book Of Animals, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra album covers, the music of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
   • There are 23 dancers

2. Different sections

   • The great Auk
   • the texan kangaroo rat
   • Utah Longhorn ram
   • Humbolt's hog-nosed Skunk flea
   • Southern Cape Zebra
   • Rain forest people
   • Brazilian woolly monkey

3. Dance styles

   • Ballet
   • Contemporary
   • Ballroom
   • Social dance
     • Morris dancing
     • Latin American carnival dance
   • Post modern dance

4. Idea/ concept