Bourn

• What are bourns stylistic features?

  Multi stimuli (films books)

  humor

  characterisation

  eye catching

  provide something new

  reworking classic stories

  music correlation

  electric mixture of styles

  themes which challenge power, stereotypes, authority, gender, class and sexuality
• What themes are in the carman?


  sexuality

  stereotypes

  gender
• What themes are in the nutcracker ?


  Power

  authority

  class
• Bourns contributions to icd?


  new audiences (makes classics accessible)

  accessibility (ease into dance cater for those who don’t know much abt dance)

  outreach (getting young people and hard to reach groups involved)

  reputation (in the last 10yrs bourn has been the uks biggest dance export)

  financial accessibility (in cinemas swan lake 2018)

  explores taboo themes changing society
• Key moment in the carman?

  Garage scene:

  pedestrian movements (car wheel, punches, cleaning the car)

  high jumps (barrel turns)
• Carmen Lana and Lucas duet?

  Shows lust and passion

  sexual movements

  ballet technique

  contemporary

  explores stereotype from 1960s gets audience to be more open with perspective on sexuality and relationships
• What is carman about?

  A love triangle between Lana luca and Dino
• Themes in the nutcracker?

  fast love

  growing up

  adventure

  dreams
• The frozen lake scene is inspired by who?

  Sonja Henie 1930s ice skating legend
• Movement example to show characterisation and facial expression?

  ACT1 time for bed

  when the nutcracker comes out of the cupboard Sugar shows complete shock on her face- she staggers back after quickly opening the cupboard and performs an exaggerated open mouth scream scrunches her eyes

  the orphans are huddled in the corner shaking their heads and bedsheets to reveal complete terror of the nutcracker (physical thearter, shows bourns use of expression and acting through dancers to tell a narrative)
• Movement example to show coming of age Nutcracker?

  CLARA- runs on the balls of her feet- secretive as she darts around the space with a very worried expression and listening to the walls (wants to find nutcracker).

  the runs change and become more frantic and flat footed when she sees the nutcracker. She goes to put her hand towards his mouth (bourns sexual innuendo)
• Costume for nutcracker?

  FRITZ SUGAR:

  velvet black costumes (spoilt Victorian) sugar has big bow (Micky mouse) silly mocking

  MARSHMELLOW:

  huge pink wig

  pink dress lots of poof

  marlin Monroe

  GUMBALLS:

  bike helmets in bright colours

  biker jackets

  bright colour top

  Biker boys from 1960s