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Faultline by Shobana Jeyasingh

KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance. Faultline by Shobana Jeyasingh. http://www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk/videos/ : watch 2 of the short videos; an Interview withShobana Jeyasingh on Faultline and a short clip of the piece

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Faultline by Shobana Jeyasingh

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  1. KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance Faultline by Shobana Jeyasingh http://www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk/videos/ : watch 2 of the short videos; an Interview withShobanaJeyasingh on Faultline and a short clip of the piece http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/faultline-has-fragmentary-feel-7393442.html A review of a live performance of Faultline

  2. KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance Ghost Dances by Christopher Bruce • http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/an-insight-into-christopher-bruces-ghost-dances/10756.html An insight into Bruce’s Ghost Dances • http://ghost-dances.wikispaces.com/Background+Information Background information • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRcdlqAyIps a clip from the Ojos Azules section

  3. KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance Ghost Dances • Ghost Dances (choreographed by Christopher Bruce for Rambert in 1981) came about as a result of a letter received by Christopher Bruce from a widow of a Chilean folk singer who had been murdered. He was asked to do a work for the Chilean Human Rights Committee and was given a lot of South American music with which he fell in love. This stirred him to be sympathetic towards the cause of the Committee who were against unnecessary killings taking place throughout their country. • South America, at the time Christopher Bruce choreographed Ghost Dances, was a tragic place with terrible things happening to the poorer, common people: fathers taken away from their families and shot or thrown away in cells and tortured to death. Friends were murdered and children taken away. • Ghost Dances has a cruel relentless quality about it, so when people die they are smashed to the ground cruelly or dragged off by the Ghost Dancers, cruel creatures who symbolise death. Bruce used the influences of the Indian past and created a land – a kind of entrance to the underworld of heaven or hell – where these ghost dancers came from. • Throughout Ghost Dances we see the peasant villagers carrying on their everyday lives, aware that death might at any time, knock on their door and carry them away. • The dance takes on a mixed quality of fun, of trying to be happy knowing of the constant threat of death. The villagers, no matter how much their people are hurt, murdered and taken away, show pride and dignity and seem to accept the murdering as a fact of life.

  4. KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance Bird Song by Siobhan Davies • http://www.siobhandavies.com/thekitchen/birdsong/ A creative insight into Birdsong • http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/4969/bird-song review 1 of a live performance of Bird Song • http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2004/oct/23/dance review 2 of a live performance of Bird Song

  5. KS4 Independent Study | Revision | Dance Perfect by Kevin Finnan & Dancers • http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/6970/perfect review 1 of a live performance of Perfect • http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2005/may/31/dance review 2 of a live performance of Perfect

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