Infra

Question 1

Who is the Choreographer?

Answer 1

Wayne McGreggor

Question 2

What is the company?

Answer 2

The Royal Ballet

Question 3

What is the Duration?

Answer 3

28 minutes

Question 4

When was the premier date?

Answer 4

13 November 2008

Question 5

How many dancers are there?

Answer 5

12

Question 6

What is the male to female ratio?

Answer 6

6:6

Question 7

What is the stage type?

Answer 7

Proscenium arch

Question 8

What is the stimulus?

Answer 8

Latin word “below”
Life beneath the city
“under the brown fog of a winter dawn/ a crowd flowed over London Bridge so many” T S Eliot

Question 9

What is the choreographic approach?

Answer 9

1- show a phrase to the whole part of the cast
2- make a phrase on a target dancer or dancers
3- TASK

Question 10

What is the choreographic intention?

Answer 10

People revealing themselves in ways they haven’t before
Seeing people below the aura face of things

Question 11

What is the dance style?

Answer 11

Contemporary Ballet

Question 12

What is the structure?

Answer 12

6 couples dance duets in 6 squares of light and a crowd surges across the stage unaware of a woman’s private grief.

Question 13

Who designed the staging and set?

Answer 13

Julian Opie

Question 14

Key points of staging

Answer 14

18m LED screen is placed high on black back wall.

Question 15

Who designed the sound?

Answer 15

Chris Ekers

Question 16

Key points of Aural setting

Answer 16

Music by Max Richer
Melancholy string melodies with electronic sounds and everyday sounds

Question 17

Key points on lighting

Answer 17

Lights width of stage, often focusing on downstage.
Sometimes dancers are lit of shafts of light.
colours are used to highlight different sections

Question 18

Key points of Costume

Answer 18

Fitted shorts, vests, t-shirts in flesh. dancers wear black white and grey.
One female dancer wears short, wrap-around skirt.
One male wears long trousers.
Females wear pointe shoes.
Street clothes are worn.