Created by Natalia Cliff
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Question | Answer |
Lighting: Terminology | Wash - is a scattered light that colours the floor Spotlight - creates a sharp focus of light Cyc flood - only lights the backdrop Gobo - is like a stencil that creates a pattern of light -Sidelights are mysterious -Light is never dull, dark or dim. It's high, low or medium intensity |
Lighting: Nutcracker | Knickerbocker glory in By Invitation Only -Violet cyc backdrop -Deep blue overhead wash -Bright, high intensity, white spotlight This creates an effect of: -Manipulative -Seductive -Controlling -Eerie mood |
Accompaniment: Knickerbocker Glory | Knickerbocker glory in By Invitation Only -Slow and repatative creates a hypnotic atmosphere -Clarinet sounds like a snake charmer, undulates and intertwine to show that he's a snake -Main melody supports slithering movements -Shakers rattle like a rattlesnake as a warning -Increasing dynamics help narrative as Clara falls under his spell |
Set Design: Orphanage | The Orphanage -Tall window stage right -Floor checkered white and grey -Upstage 5 metallic hospital beds -Large Grandfather clock centre -Walls have large geometric shapes with zigzag cracks and 2 pillars |
Set Design: By Invitation Only | -Same orphanage floors and walls to show that it is a dream -Two backdrops -First backdrop has vertical pink and blue stripes with white whispy clouds -Large pink sparkly lips with teeth frame the entrance to sweetieland -Inside of lips cut out to reveal the second, pink backdrop with tonsils |
Costume: Gobstoppers Costume | -3 boys are yellow, pink an blue -Bright yellow t-shirt with a target on it -Black sleevless leather jacket with silver studs -Black 3/4 length jeans -Yellow Doc martin style boots with black laces |
Costume: Marshmallow Girls | -Baby pink halter neck mini dresses with white pom poms stuck on -Pink ostrich feather hats -White pom pom earings |
Motif: Knickerbockerbocker Glory | -Roll up slowly facing stage left -Slow melt into a lunge -Twist toward the audience until you're in a sidewards plank with right arm sticking up -Fold arm down and then replace whilst bending your right leg at the same time -Thread your right arm under your left arm and roll -Hip lift at the end of the roll -Sit upright with left leg bent and right arm circles over the head and then glides to the front -REMEMBER to include diagrams |
Nutcracker: Themes | -Fantasy -Clara's dream -Growing up -Love -Sexual awakening |
Nutcracker: Stimulus | -Original Ballet -Tchaikovsky music -Victorian childhood |
Nutcracker: Costume Designer | Anthony Ward |
Nutcracker: Movement Style | -Mainly Contemporary (flat feet, floor work, arched back) -Some Ballet (Matron mime meaning let's dance) -Exaggerated gestures (licking gestures during the wedding) -Spanish flamenco (liquorice allsorts. Characterised by angular elbows and stamping feet) |
Nutcracker: Lighting Designer | Howard Harrison |
Nutcracker: Set Designer | Anthony Ward |
Nutcracker: Composer | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Nutcracker: Choreographer | Matthew Bourne |
Nutcracker: First Performance | Adventures in Motion Pictures - 24 dancers 1992 |
Nutcracker: Structure and Staging | -2 acts with 9 episodes Proscenium |
Nutcracker: Choreographic Style | -A reworking of the traditional ballet -Narrative and comic |
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