Swansong

Question	Answer
Choreographer	Christopher Bruce
Company Name	Various, but Rambert is a main one
Date First Performed	November 1987
Accompaniment by	Phillip Chambon
Accompaniment Type	Electro-Acoustic with digitally sampled sounds, vocals, a reed pipe and popular dance rhythms.
Costume Designer	Christopher Bruce
Costume	Everyday clothes associated with roles. Uniforms for the interrogators and jeans and t shirt for the victim.
Lighting Director	David Mohr
Lighting	Overhead lighting and a diagonal shaft of light to suggest natural light from upstage left. Footlights create shadows. The lighting is very atmospheric.
Set designer	Christopher Bruce
Set	A 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.
Dance Style	Contemporary with physical contact and some ballet movements. Tap dance.
Staging	Proscenium
Number of Dancers and Gender of Dancers	3 men usually
Dance idea or concept	From 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.
Structure of the Dance	Introduction followed by 7 sections. Victim is always on stage.

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