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1. Choreographer: Wayne McGregor

   • Choreographer of Royal Ballet - 2006
     • first contemporary choreographer to hold the post
   • Multiple award winner

2. Company = The royal Ballet

3. Premiere = 13th November 2008, Royal Opera House, London

4. Dance Style = Contemporary ballet

5. 12 dancers

   • but brief appearance of a crowd

6. Duration = 28 minutes

7. Aural Setting

   • Music by Max Richter
   • Sound design by Chris Ekers
   • mixes melancholy string melodies + electronic sounds + everyday sounds, e.g; train whistle

8. Costume

   • by Mortiz Junge
   • Fitted shorts, vest, t-shirts in flesh, black, white, grey colours for the dancers
   • One female = short wrap-around skirt
   • One male = long trousers
   • females wear pointe shoes
   • street clothes worn for crowd

9. Lighting

   • By Lucy carter
   • relates closely to the structure
   • lights width of stage + often focuses down stage
   • occasionally dancers lit by shafts of light
   • one point 6 rectangles of light frame 6 duets

10. Structure

    • solos
    • duets
    • ensembles
    • many arresting moments
      • e.g; 6 couples dance duets in six squares of light and a crowd surges across the stage unaware of a woman's grief