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Breaking the Mould (Local Authority choose pract fit theme (OD: put an end…

- - - - Didn't stick to rules, eg... considered wrong
- - - - Encourage experiment bodies break mould habitual movement
        
        Pond way dancer balances on one bent leg, the other leg is bent and raised in front flexed foot, slouched posture high release
        
        Usually straight leg extended in front foot pointed straight upright posture
        
        Rather highlight beauty, experiment movement potential
- - - - Bourne homo 18, also influ choice male, break ste love
        
        Bourne’s first designer down, potential sponsors refused funding people refused accept shattered conventions male female romance
        
        In an interview with Anna Tims Bourne stated that he spent hours watching Swans in parks and on film, particularly drawing inspiration from ‘Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds, particularly the scene in which one bird lands on a climbing frame and, when the heroine turns, has suddenly turned into a menacing flock’ (www.theguardian.com, 2013).
        
        Bourne conclus take beauty grace ref ungainly
        
        ungraceful jump in the air with one leg bent to the side elbows facing upwards
        
        menacing aggressive
        
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- - - - although imagery no narra emot
        
        Many CB romant love stories ; big b
        
        ‘Nutcracker’ Clara big, try gain nut attention orphanage, star jumps spotty-dog walks; childlike movements highlight Clara's youth experiment relatable showing off first love
        
        c new foc pure dance
- - - - ice scene Princess Sugar steps attitude arabesque knee highest point, performed flexed hand emphasise girlieness yet confident character.
        
        breaks idea dancers must relaxed elongated fingers - B compromises Ballet rules; never flex your wrists, order achieve strong characterisation.
- - - - Biped décor exploration possibilities animation technology motion capture.
      - Career defined by discovery
        
        Use of computers, body sensors and motion capture technology
        
        Cunningham became interested in creating dance works to be specifically filmed by a camera, developed imaginative and new ways to catch the medium of dance through moving image, the positioning of camera as key part of choreography rather than a mere witness
        
        In 1990's, Cunningham pioneered the use of the computer as a choreographic tool, software could model and animate the human form, allowing him to visualise sequences and phases of dance which he would then translate to a dancers body, expanding what the mind thinks we can do
        
        Allowed him to sculpt, animate and choreograph dance in entirely new ways, reimagine understanding of human ways
        
        Change perspective, move camera through studio, focus on unusual details, adjust scale and tempo, interwove scenes