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Description
Mind Map by Tamara Lancaster, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tamara Lancaster
almost 9 years ago
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Nutcracker Fact File
- Set designer; Anthony Ward
- Partly realistic but 'larger than life' and almost cartoon like
- Partly realistic but 'larger than life' and almost cartoon like
- Movement Styles
- Contemporary
- floorwork
- Tilt
- Paralell
- Grounded movements
- floorwork
- Ballet
- mime
- attitude
- Grande jete
- mime
- Gestures
- kissing
- shaking head ( dramatic , over the top )
- playing
- yawning
- kissing
- Spanish Flamenco
- wrist rolls
- clapped rythms
- proud , upright
stance
- wide lunges
- wrist rolls
- Contemporary
- Staging ; proscenium
- Number of dancers;24
- Re-work of an original ballet but adds comedy and edge to the story
- Structure; 2 acts/ 9 episodes
- Act 1 ; in the orphanage , christmas eve Govenors
etc ,then they go to the Frozen Lake
- Act 2; Sweeties Land ,Wedding , back in the orphanage
- Act 1 ; in the orphanage , christmas eve Govenors
etc ,then they go to the Frozen Lake
- Themes
- Dreams and Fantasy
- over-sized feathers and pillow hanging
- twins become cupid
- wings
- sweetie land
- pjyamas
- nutcracker comes to life
- Crack in the wall reveals a new world
- Tree grows enormous
- Fritz becomes Prince BonBon
- Sugar becomes Princess Sugar
- over-sized feathers and pillow hanging
- Love and growing up
- Nutcracker becomes a man she
falls in love with
- Clara gets older (shown by the change in
her clothes )
- At the end , when grown up , she finds out the boy she liked
from the orphanage also liked her back , they escape
together
- Nutcracker becomes a man she
falls in love with
- Sexual Awakening
- Nutcracker takes his shirt off and it
catches Claras attention
- Knickerbocker glory is seductive
- Gobstoppers are sexually lewd
- Licking gestures throughout the Sweetie Land sections
- Nutcracker takes his shirt off and it
catches Claras attention
- Bourne said " dreams have to develop out of
some lived experience "
- This was his reasoning for the roles of the characters changing e.g Fritz from
the orphanage turned into Prince BonBon in Sweetie Land
- This was his reasoning for the roles of the characters changing e.g Fritz from
the orphanage turned into Prince BonBon in Sweetie Land
- Dreams and Fantasy
- Stimulus
- Charles Dickens; christmas carol , Olivier Twist ,nicholas
Nickelby ( the Dotheboys hall )
- Photographs of Victorian childhood
- Museum of childhood ( in London )
- Avisit to a reproduction of a
Victorian schoolroom in London
- Charles Dickens; christmas carol , Olivier Twist ,nicholas
Nickelby ( the Dotheboys hall )
- Dance style ideas/ inspiration
- Social dancing
- ballroom , 1960's style twists , 1970's style , tango
- ballroom , 1960's style twists , 1970's style , tango
- BMX / skateboarding
- Gobstoppers dance , sideways
travelling , jumps , fast .
- Gobstoppers dance , sideways
travelling , jumps , fast .
- Ice skating
- Used Sonja Henie as his
inspiration . She was a
norwegian Ice skater
- Used Sonja Henie as his
inspiration . She was a
norwegian Ice skater
- Social dancing
- General
- Choreographer; Matthew Bourne
- Company name; Adventures in Motion Pictures
- First performed in August 1992
- Accompaniment; Pytor Tchaichovsky
- Classical and Orchestral
- Classical and Orchestral
- Costume Designer; Anthony Ward
- Colourful and over the top
- Literal references to sweets
- Colourful and over the top
- Lighting; Howard Harrison
- theatrical lighting-helps to create the atmosphere
- theatrical lighting-helps to create the atmosphere
- Choreographer; Matthew Bourne
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