Stylistic Features

• • Popular Culture, particularly Film
• • England: 1930s and 1940s
• • Parody/Satire and Humour
• • An eclectic range of movement: Dancers are ‘Dancer Actors’
• Use of multi Stimuli (Films, Plays, books, musicals, dance history, Disney, )
• Narrative: Characterisation
• Eye catching and historical references for set design and costume
• Desire to provide something new for the audience
• Reworking of classic stories, ballets and original scores
• Music correlation and visualisation
• Eclectic mixture of styles (Social Dance/Mime)
• Intention based tasks/Creative play
• Themes which challenge power and stereotypes, authority, gender, class and sexuality