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AQA Dance Nutcracker Key Information
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- 1Lighting: TerminologyWash - is a scattered light that colours the floor
Spotlight - creates a sharp focus of light
Cyc flood - only lights the backdrop
Gobo - is like a stencil that creates a pattern of light
-Sidelights are mysterious
-Light is never dull, dark or dim. It's high, low or medium intensity - 2Lighting: NutcrackerKnickerbocker glory in By Invitation Only
-Violet cyc backdrop
-Deep blue overhead wash
-Bright, high intensity, white spotlight
This creates an effect of:
-Manipulative
-Seductive
-Controlling
-Eerie mood - 3Accompaniment: Knickerbocker GloryKnickerbocker glory in By Invitation Only
-Slow and repatative creates a hypnotic atmosphere
-Clarinet sounds like a snake charmer, undulates and intertwine to show that he's a snake
-Main melody supports slithering movements
-Shakers rattle like a rattlesnake as a warning
-Increasing dynamics help narrative as Clara falls under his spell - 4Set Design: OrphanageThe Orphanage
-Tall window stage right
-Floor checkered white and grey
-Upstage 5 metallic hospital beds
-Large Grandfather clock centre
-Walls have large geometric shapes with zigzag cracks and 2 pillars - 5Set Design: By Invitation Only-Same orphanage floors and walls to show that it is a dream
-Two backdrops
-First backdrop has vertical pink and blue stripes with white whispy clouds
-Large pink sparkly lips with teeth frame the entrance to sweetieland
-Inside of lips cut out to reveal the second, pink backdrop with tonsils - 6Costume: Gobstoppers Costume-3 boys are yellow, pink an blue
-Bright yellow t-shirt with a target on it
-Black sleevless leather jacket with silver studs
-Black 3/4 length jeans
-Yellow Doc martin style boots with black laces - 7Costume: Marshmallow Girls-Baby pink halter neck mini dresses with white pom poms stuck on
-Pink ostrich feather hats
-White pom pom earings - 8Motif: Knickerbockerbocker Glory-Roll up slowly facing stage left
-Slow melt into a lunge
-Twist toward the audience until you're in a sidewards plank with right arm sticking up
-Fold arm down and then replace whilst bending your right leg at the same time
-Thread your right arm under your left arm and roll
-Hip lift at the end of the roll
-Sit upright with left leg bent and right arm circles over the head and then glides to the front
-REMEMBER to include diagrams - 9Nutcracker: Themes-Fantasy
-Clara's dream
-Growing up
-Love
-Sexual awakening - 10Nutcracker: Stimulus-Original Ballet
-Tchaikovsky music
-Victorian childhood - 11Nutcracker: Costume DesignerAnthony Ward
- 12Nutcracker: Movement Style-Mainly Contemporary (flat feet, floor work, arched back)
-Some Ballet (Matron mime meaning let's dance)
-Exaggerated gestures (licking gestures during the wedding)
-Spanish flamenco (liquorice allsorts. Characterised by angular elbows and stamping feet) - 13Nutcracker: Lighting DesignerHoward Harrison
- 14Nutcracker: Set DesignerAnthony Ward
- 15Nutcracker: ComposerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 16Nutcracker: ChoreographerMatthew Bourne
- 17Nutcracker: First PerformanceAdventures in Motion Pictures - 24 dancers
1992 - 18Nutcracker: Structure and Staging-2 acts with 9 episodes
Proscenium - 19Nutcracker: Choreographic Style-A reworking of the traditional ballet
-Narrative and comic
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- Information on the lighting, set design, costumes and a motif for the Nutcracker dance
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