choreographer
Lucy Bennet
company
Stopgap dance company
Date of first performance
5 February 2014
Dance style
Inclusive contemporary
Chorographic approach
Collaborative approach - developed from laura jones' movement in wheel chair. Dancers actively contribute to process through choreopgraphic tasks
Stimulus
Urban landscape, snow globe, personal experience, Goran Djurvic paintings
Choreographic intention
Coming to terms with life's limitations, living in confinement, loss and resolve
Dancers
4 dancers (2 male/ 2 female)
Duration
20 minutes
structure
Episodic
Aftermath of Tragedy/pensive dances.
Seven sections.
First couple of sections show exploring limitations
Trio is about finding harmony
Family portrait shows time passing
solo pays tribute to father
Aural setting
Hall of piano to create a cold and ambient sound. Paper snow and other Inc. sound effects like distant rumble, wind and footsteps through snow.
Elements of the sunshine of your smile were mixed into atmosphere often sounding distorted or as if drifting in
Costume
Designed by Anna Jones. Wash of blue, green merging with backdrop. Paint running from the garments Like Djorvic paitings. All the garments are removed to show time has moved on
Lighting
Designed by chain Yavrovan. Focuses on one or two spots. Open is out in middle with a wash of blue and cool side lighting
Performance environment
Proscenium arch
Stage/set
Crudely painted heavy black truck where paints look like it is running down the campus. Vitrine, two stools plus a headless suit on mannequin legs.
Relationships used
Contact
Counterpoint
Chorographic devices used
Unison of textures
repetition