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Ghost Dances and Nutcracker
Similarities and Differences
- Similarities
- Staging - Proscenium
- Very defined characters
- Both telling a story
- Staging - Proscenium
- Ghost Dances
- Choreographer -
Christopher Bruce
- Company- Rambert Dance
Company
- First Performance - 3 July 1981
- Dance Style - A blend of
contemporary
(Graham-influenced) and
balled with elements of folk
and social styles
- Theme - Political
Oppression in Chile
- Starting point - The music
and south American culture
- Structure - 7 sections, each have
different song/music
- Dancers - 5 Women, 6 Men
- Lighting - Nick Chelton
Gloomy and shadowy, side
lighting highlights the
ghosts. Brighten for
folk-type dances performed
by the dead. Lighting
changes show death
- Costume - Belinda Scarlett
Ghosts wear wigs and rags and
have skull-like masks and
painted bodies to suggest
bones and muscles. the dead
wear gender specific clothing to
show their different walks of
life, all are unique
- Set - Christopher Bruce
The painted backdrop
represents a rocky cave
like opening. in the
distance there is water
and mountains . There
are rock-like structures
on stage
- Choreographer -
Christopher Bruce
- Nutcracker
- Choreographer -
Matthew Bourne
- Company - Adventures in
Motion pictures (Now called
New Adventures)
- First Performance - August 1992
- Dance Style - Contemporary and
balletic. Exaggerated but realistic
use of features
- Choreographic Style - Reworking of a
traditional ballet. Narrative and comic.
Influenced by film and theatre. Close
relationship between dance and music
- Theme - Original Nutcracker story,
retold with references to adolescence,
escapism, fantasy, and satire
- Starting point -
Classical ballet and
music. Images of
Victorian childhood
- Structure - 2 acts,
9 episodes
- Dancers - 24, male
& female
- Accompaniment - Tchaikovsky
Classical and orchestral
- Costume - Anthony Ward
Colourful and over the top
to show characters.
Cultural influences and
literal references to sweets
- Lighting - Howard Harrison
Theatrical, Helps to create
atmosphere
- Set - Anthony Ward
Partly realistic but larger
then life and
cartoon-like. Act 1 is dull
orphanage but Act 2,
entered by a large
mouth, represents
sweetie land
- Choreographer -
Matthew Bourne
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