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Swansong Fact File
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GCSE Dance (swansong) Mind Map on Swansong Fact File, created by Tamara Lancaster on 19/03/2016.
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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
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