GCSE Dance- Nutcracker! and Ghost Dances
- Created by: sophie ward
- Created on: 31-03-13 19:23
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- Dance
- Ghost Dances
- Company: Rambert dance company
- First performance: 3 July, 1981
- Style: Contemporary, Folk and social style
- Choreographic style: Thematic and episodic with narrative elements, strong characterisation
- Theme: Political oppression/ tragedy in Chille
- Structure: seven sections, each characterised by different piece of music or song
- Starting point: The music and South American rituals and culture
- Dancers: 5 Women and 6 Men
- Accompaniment: South American songs and folk music by Inti- illamani and wind effects
- Costumes by Belinda Scarlett
- Lighting by Nick Chelton
- Set by Christopher Bruce
- Staging: Proscenium
- Choreographer: Christopher Bruce
- Nutcracker!
- Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
- Company: New adventures
- First performance: August 1992
- Dance style: Contemporary Ballet
- Choreographic style: A reworking of a traditional Ballet narrative and comic. Influenced by film and theatre.
- Theme: The nutcracker story retold with references to fantasy
- Starting point: The classical Ballet and the music. Images of Victorian childhood
- Structure: Two acts with nine episodes
- Dancers: 24
- Accompaniment: Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky
- Costume and set by Anthony Ward
- Lighting by Howard Harrison
- Staging: Proscenium
- Scenario by Matthew Bourne and Martin Duncan
- Ghost Dances
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