Within Her Eyes

Question 1

Choreographer

Answer 1

James cousins

Question 2

Company

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James cousins company

Question 3

Dance style

Answer 3

Contemporary/contact work — partnering
- using weight + momentum for flow

Question 4

Choreographic approach

Answer 4

Material from the stage version ‘there we have been’
Collaboration and improvisation — recorded + selected movements

Lisa was not allowed to look at Aaron, spirals introduced — intimate + intertwined feeling

Question 5

Starting point/stimulus

Answer 5

Love story with a twist - from personal experience and narratives
Friendship growing into love
Love + loss
Dependency + loyalty
Longing + memory

Question 6

Choreographic intention/theme

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To create a dance film with emotional intensity and energy
Abstract love story but open for interpretation

Question 7

Dancers

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1 x M = Aaron
1 x F = Lisa

Question 8

Structure

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A prologue and 6 sections — one seamless journey - narrative
Start = as far away from each other as possible while maintaining contact
End = as close as possible

Question 9

Aural composer + overview

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Seymour Milton
Create tension but be delicate to reflect relationship
Sound score with strings + piano — emotive + with fragile delicate quality
With electronic sounds
Collaboration between music + choreography

Question 10

Costume designer + overview

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Lisa = vulnerable, fragile + conservative = modest with light tones - ethereal
- thin shirt buttoned to top, white
- beige long skirt
- colour palette reflects natural environment

Aaron = strong support — khaki jumpsuit + brown trousers
- dark earthy tones — he is grounding Lisa

Question 11

Lighting designer + overview

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Natural lighting
Relient on welsh weather - grey - intense atmosphere
Added filters through editing for darker undertones to emphasise grey and make more intense

Question 12

Performance environment

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• sense of isolation — bare open vast landscapes
• raw delicate unstable relationship
• tension
• help reflect relationship - starting open mountainside finishing more intimate in forest - low in grass - quarry

Question 13

Shadows link staging/set to stimulus

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Love story with a twist: prologue species give a back story, highlighting girl as focal point and lonely, graveyard tells us she has lost someone close to her
Spaces are not warm or welcoming as you would expect for a love story, instead: barren + cold

Question 14

WHE link staging/set to narrative

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Space suggests different stages of relationship
Eg field is vast, windy, overcast making the dancers look vulnerable. Cliff might suggest risk etc

Question 15

WHE link staging/set to lighting

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Natural lighting matches outdoor spaces

Question 16

WHE link staging/set to mood

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Overcast outdoor spaces set a dreary sad mood

Question 17

WHE link staging/set to costume

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Natural colours of landscape blend with neutral colours of costumes

Question 18

WHE link staging/set to aural setting

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Wind sounds in aural setting are amplifies and match the outdoor location

Question 19

WHE link lighting to stimulus

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Starts with a night time sky, moving into day, dusk and then night time again - suggests a timeline for the love story

Question 20

WHE link lighting to structure

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Lighting gives structure to dance as it moves through the course of a day

Question 21

WHE link lighting to mood

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Dusk creates a melancholy mood as we understand the relationship is coming to an end

Question 22

WHE link lighting to set

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Natural light matches outdoor spaces

Question 23

WHE link lighting to time

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Night time sky at the start gives us a starting point for the dance - we can then assume that the light sky in the next scene is early morning (there is no one around)

Question 24

WHE link costume to character

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Girls blouse buttoned up to neck: sets a reserved character. Blouse is a delicate chiffon fabric: reinforces her fragility. Girls colours connect her with the sky. Colour invites a variety of possible interpretations
Man’s colour is earthy and connects him with the ground. Stable, supportive, solid, dependable.

Question 25

WHE link costume to stimulus

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Reserved character as blouse buttoned up to neck Fragility = delicate chiffon fabric

Question 26

WHE link costume to gender

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Gender specific clothing

Question 27

WHE link costume to set

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Neutral colours blend with natural landscape

Question 28

WHE link costume to lighting

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Everyday clothing matches everyday natural lighting

Question 29

WHE link costume to era

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Modern day clothing

Question 30

WHE link costume to narrative

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Girls blouse has top 2 buttons undone towards the end, marking a closer relationship than at start

Question 31

WHE link aural setting to location

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Wind sounds set the dance outdoors

Question 32

WHE link aural setting to set

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Wind sounds support site sensitive environment particularly the field

Question 33

WHE link aural setting to mood

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Variety of moods: ominous and foreboding much of the time Strings shake violently bringing tension. In contrast there are also calmer and more tender sections (moving closer) setting a gentle loving mood

Question 34

WHE link aural setting to stimulus

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Love story with a twist/torsion between loyalty and desire to move on. The contrasts between gentle violin notes and the shaking strings shows the uncertainty and inner turmoil the girl is experiencing

Question 35

WHE link aural setting to lighting

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Kneeling: intensity of music drops with many pauses and silences. Lighting intensity also drops to dusk

Question 36

WHE link aural setting to structure

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Music changes for each section

Question 37

WHE link aural setting to movement

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Flow Two: close relationship - movement whips and throws with build in speed, matching tension building in shaking strings

Question 38

WHE link aural setting to camera

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Flow One (forest) - strings shake and build tension ‘stabbing the air’ Matched by the camera which weaves through the trees, spying on the couple The two features combine to create secrecy, apprehension and suspense

Question 39

WHE link use of camera to mood

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Variety of moods Eg Prologue, camer follow girl closely from behind - sets a mood of mystery as we want to know who she is Long shot on field makes dancers look small and so sets a mood of isolation and vulnerability Close ups later on change mood to intimacy

Question 40

WHE link use of camera to narrative

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Camera angles move narrative forwards from isolation to intimacy - key moment of when the girl looks at the man fri the 1st time is highlighted with a close up to mark a change in narrative

Question 41

WHE link use of camera to stimulus

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Mood and narrative progression support love story with a twist- the ‘twist’ is reinforced in Flow Two when the film edits between settings to suggest the girl is still uncertain

Question 42

WHE link use of camera to set

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Camera works closely with spaces Eg Flow One (forest) camera weaves between trees

Question 43

WHE link use of camera to highlight action

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Camera directs viewers eye so that we look at what the choreographer wants us to see. Close ups highlight key actions

Question 44

WHE link use of number/gender of dancers to stimulus

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2 dancers: 1m 1f are important for telling a love story

Question 45

WHE link use of number/gender of dancers to movement

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2 dancers are important for the contact work performed throughout the Vance and for one dancer keeping the other off the floor the whole way through

Question 46

WHE link use of number/gender of dancers to set

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Having just 2 dancers in middle of vast spaces eg field, cliff top is effective Isolation and loss is highlighted

Question 47

WHE link use of number/gender of dancers to narrative

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Work starts with just 1 dancer, the girl - important for focusing the dance on her rather than the man Using lone female dancer here tell us this story is about her and highlights her past