Artificial Things

• Choreographer: Lucy Bennet
• Company:Stopgap Dance Company
• Dance style: Inclusive contemporary dance
• Date of performance : 5th February 2014
• Dancers : 4 dancers (2male/2female)
• duration of the dance :20minutes
• Performance enviroment : Proscenium arch
• Chorgraphic intention:

  coming to terms with life limitations.

  In this scene they are constricted within a snow Golbe that signifies these ideas, but they find a resolution by coming together

  surrender to the fact that we all must live with individual regrets
• stimlus:

  a snow covered urban landscape with an isolated figure perched on a collapsed wheelchair

  the mysterioud paintings by the serbian artist Goran Djurovic also influenced the desighn within the scenes
• Chorographic approach:

  uses a collabrative approach with her choregraphy

  scene 3 has been driven by Laura Jones moveent in her wheelchair and has been translated by the standing dancers David wildrige and Amy butler
• aurual settings:

  a paino to create a cold, ambient sound.

  also the sound of paper snow to make sound effects and distant rumble, wind and footsepts through snow.

  the song sang in the solo The sunshine of your smile were mixed into the atmosphere
• Costume:

  costumes are a wash of blue and green merging with the backdrop

  garnets work in some scenes such as jackets and jumpers but they are removed to depict time has moved on
• staging set : influenced by several painrings

  paper snow is scattered on the ground in a diagnol from the vitrine to Laura

  headless suit on mannequin legs perced on a third stool

  dance floor is grey and around tyhe edge is wooden frame reflecting colour , shape, and restriction of the vitrine. Emphasis the fact that the audience is looking into a snow golbe of artfificial things
• lighting:

  light focuses in one or two spots. It opens out in the middle, witha blue wash and warm and cool side lighting before closing down to another spot for the final solo