Bourne: Influences Flashcards
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Frederick Ashton
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- Trained with Marie Rambert, created his own production of “Cinderella” (1980) using Prokofiev’s score. Which Bourne remade in 1997 with a world war two reinterpretation.
- Characterisation and telling stories through movement.
- Crisp balletic technique.
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Kenneth Macmillan
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- Idea of complexity of character.
- Raw emotions.
- Dark twists in narrative.
- Ballet world
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Fred Astaire
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- American dancer + choreographer.
- Fluidity of movement.
- Ballroom style partnering as seen by Fred + Ginger.
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Isadora Duncan
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- Pioneer of Modern Dance.
- Pedestrian movement.
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Lea Anderson
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- Attended Trinity Laban alongside Bourne.
- Gestural movement vocabulary.
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Music
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Used as a starting point of the work, typically see direct correlation within Bourne’s works.
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MGM Musicals, Film Noir, Carry on Films
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- Vibrance (Wizard of Oz).
- Characterisation/cheeky moves.
- British films
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Alfred Hitchcock
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- Film director.
- Complete entertainment.
- Psychological thrillers with suspense, and strong imagery.
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Busby Berkley
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- Film director.
- Geometrical patterns.
- Large sets.
- “Footlight Parade” (1933) a water ballet of chorus girls diving and swimming in geometric and floral patterns.
