Infra

• Stimuli

  • infra means below in Latin
  • life beneath the surface of a city
  • a poem called the waste land
  • the London bombings
• choreographic intentions

  • seeing below the surface of things
  • human relationships
• choreographic approaches

  show - dancers copy the phrase or adapt it

  make - McGregor works with selected dancers. remainder copy/adapt

  task setting - choreographic task set for dancers to complete
• dance style

  contemporary ballet
• when is the lighting type 'wash' used?

  throughout using different colours e.g. green wash for toxic duet
• when is the lighting type 'sidelight' used?

  collapse in the crowd. trio for 2 women and 1 male solo.
• when is the lighting type 'spotlight' used?

  final section
• what coloured lighting are used throughout the piece

  white, green, orange and blue
• in the middle, there are 6 duets in..

  six white rectangles
• how does the lighting link to below the surface of a city (stimulus)?

  Lighting shapes on the floor as if they have been installed from above works with darkness to make you feel as if you are below ground
• how does the lighting link to the poem 'the waste land' (stimulus)?

  red edges (especially in white wash at the beginning) suggest fog that you see in a City and only being able to see a blurred representation of a person's life
• how does the lighting link to the london bombings (stimulus)?

  orange wash could suggest fire
• how does the lighting link to the different human relationships (choreographic intention)?

  Different colours represent different relationships between people e.g. green for jealousy and toxicity
• how does the lighting link to seeing below the surface of things (choreographic intention)?

  Other colours may link to raw emotion felt below the surface of ones facade e.g. low intensity blue wash for grief
• how does the lighting support highlighting dancers?

  e.g. follow spot in final section
• how does the lighting support the structure?

  different lighting in each section
• how does the lighting support aural setting?

  intensity and colour often matches aural setting
• how does the lighting support space?

  rectangles restrict dancers space
• how many dancers are there in infra?

  12 dancers
• what do the women wear?

  black mini skirt, white crop top
• what do the men wear?

  long black trousers, bare chest
• how does the costume link to below the surface of a city (stimulus)?

  Black and grey suggest darkness of underground / smoke / dirt
• how does the costume link to the poem 'the waste land' (stimulus)?

  Colours are oppressive and gloomy like the poem
• how does the costume link to different human relationships (choreographic intention)?


  Each dancer wears an individual design showing a difference in people
• how does the costume link to seeing below the surface of things (choreographic intention)?


  Costumes are striped down to minimum to show inner personal life of people
• how do the costumes support the movement of the dancers?

  easy to move in, tight fitting so shows body lines, pointe shoes lengthen leg lines
• how does the costume support the set?

  monochrome colours of costume match monochrome colours of set
• how does the costume support genre?

  ballet shoes support contemporary ballet style
• how does the costume support era?

  tight, clean cut, revealing costumes point to modern day
• how does the costume support gender?

  shoes and two different costumes are gender specific - the rest more gender neutral perhaps
• What is the set design?

  An empty black box and an LED screen above the stage with people walking on it
• How does the stimuli below the surface of a city link to staging/set and props?

  blackness suggest underground. dancers are physically below LED figures which could be people walking in the street above
• How does the London bombings link to staging/set and props?

  The underground location could be the London Underground