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Mock Exam
Are you Ready?
Name the 2 professional dances you
will be answering questions and the
choreographer
Overdrive (2004)
By Richard Alston
Nutcracker! (2002)
By Matthew Bourne
Costume
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Colour
Style
Design
Era
Texture
Length
Features
Alston’s Overdrive Costume
Man wears
Grey, sleeveless
top,
Grey, long, loose
trousers
Woman wears
Red, halter-neck
tunic
Red, long, loose
trousers
Different colours distinguish between different genders
Bare arms help to show clear lines of arm actions
Loose fitting for ease of movement
Plain as abstract theme and focus on dance
Bourne’s Nutcracker! Costume
The
Marshmallow
Girls
wear
Pink, fluffy hats
Pink leotard
with white
spots
Pink tutu
The Licorice Allsorts
wear
Black, Spanish-style
clothes with licorice
allsorts on.
The men wear pink
trouser, have black hair
slicked down and
moustaches
The female wears a
flamenco style skirt and
high shoes
Pink of marshmallow girls goes with the pink lighting and pink of set design
The marshmallow girls costume bounces with their rhythmical steps
The Spanish-style costumes go with the Spanish music and actions in their section
The different costumes help with identifying the characters and progressing the story
Accompaniment
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Sound
Orchestral
Electronic
Traditional
Songs
Found/natural sound
Alston Overdrive Accompaniment
By Terry Riley
Rhythmical, repetitive piano
Bourne Nutcracker! Accompaniment
Tchaikovsky
Spanish Dance
Directly correlates with movements and
builds into climax of section/scene
Physical Setting
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Colour
Props
Location
Backdrop
Lighting
Alston’s Overdrive Physical Setting
Traditional
theatre venue
No props
Plain, square floor
Black background
White side
lighting
Contributions…
Allows space to focus on dancers
Flooring complements costume
Bourne’s Nutcracker! Physical Setting
Traditional theatre
venue
Black and white
checked flooring
Pink and blue striped
backdrop with big
pink open mouth
entrance
Bright, white wash
lighting
Contributions…
Provides exit for characters
Sets scene and helps progress narrative
Complements costume
Relationships
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Canon
Unison
Complementary
Contrasting
Relationship in Overdrive
Unison at
beginning in
male duet
entrance,
walking onto
stage and into
side reach motif
Complementary in
male/female duet,
male lunges to left
whilst female jumps
back
Relationship in Nutcracker!
Unison at ending
ensemble around
the cake with the
hip rotation and
thrust
Relationship in YOUR group dance?
What is a climax?
Build up/high point of
• Speed
• Dynamic
• Tension
Use of climax in Nutcracker!
Title and choreographer for solo
composition task
• Perfect (2005)
• Motionhouse
Actions
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Fall
Elevate
Travel
Rotate
Stillness
Gesture
Dynamics
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Smoothly
Softly
Suddenly
Staccato
Sustained
Space
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Levels; high, medium, low
Floor pattern
Air pattern
Direction
Formation