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Swansong
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- 1ChoreographerChristopher Bruce
- 2Company NameVarious, but Rambert English ballet
- 3Premier Date25th November 1987
- 4aural Accompaniment byPhillip Chambon
- 5Accompaniment TypeElectro-Acoustic with digitally sampled sounds, vocals, a reed pipe and popular dance rhythms.
- 6Costume DesignerChristopher Bruce
- 7Costume
- 8Lighting DirectorDavid Mohr
- 9LightingOverhead lighting and a diagonal shaft of light to suggest natural light from upstage left. Footlights create shadows. The lighting is very atmospheric.
- 10Set designerChristopher Bruce
- 11SetA bare stage apart from a chair, suggests a cell. The interrogators always exit stage right – this could be where the door to the cell is. The chair has many purposes and is used symbolically as a weapon, a shield and shackles (like hand cuffs). Props include canes for the guards, and a red nose which is used to degrade the prisoner.
- 12Dance StyleContemporary with physical contact and some ballet movements. Tap dance.
- 13what stage was it performed onProscenium
- 14Number of Dancers3
- 15Dance idea or conceptFrom the work that Amnesty International do and the experiences of Chilean poet Victor Jara. Amnesty International help foreign people who have been put in prison abroad. Human Rights.
- 16Structure of the DanceIntroduction followed by 7 sections. Victim is always on stage.
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