Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Swansong Fact File
- Choreographer ; Christopher Bruce
- Music ; Philip Chambon
- Costume design; Christopher Bruce
- Lighting design; David Mohr
- Filmed in 1989 and was first shown on BBC2 in 1991
- 3 dancers - 2 guards/ interrogators and 1 victim
- About the interrogation of a prisoner by two guards
- Themes of the dance piece ;
- Manipulation
- Imprisonment
- Swans
- Interpreted it as the meaning of ' freedom '
- Commedia dell'arte
- Humour in tragedy
- Section 1; Questioning and
aggression// Section 2;Humiliation ,
being friendly// Section 3;Isolation (
interrogators leave the prisoner
alone)// Section 4;Aggression in
slow-motion , teasing //Section
5;Isolation (leaving prisoner alone
again )// Section 6; Aggression with
implied weapons// Section 7; Leaving
prisoner alone - release/freedom
- Types of dance
- Tap
- Contemporary
- Ballroom
- Ballet
- Music hall / Vaudeville
- Used for the guards
movements - old
fashioned , used canes ,
soft shoe shuffle (tap
dancing without tap
shoes!)
- They used Jazz shoes
NOT soft tap shoes