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In-depth interviews with the maverick British choreographer best known for his revolutionary, tony award-winning Swan Lake
In the ten years since Matthew Bourne started his dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, he has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting choreographers at work today. His experimental style can be seen in his original dances-such as Town and Country, a work that includes a pas de deux that Bourne describes as "a Fred and Ginger number for two men"-and in his new versions of ballet classics, including his groundbreaking Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, and The Nutcracker, set in a Dickensian orphanage. Drawing on his years of studying all varieties of dance as well as on his vast knowledge of dance history, theater, and popular culture, Bourne has been able to fuse elements of classical and modern dance, theatrical innovation, and sexual expression in a new way, reflecting a uniquely ironic, postmodern sensibility in his playing with the elements of classical dance and reexamining the traditional relationships between-and within-the sexes.
In these interviews with the distinguished dance and theater critic Alastair Macaulay, Bourne demonstrates persuasively just how he has synthesized these disparate elements to create an experience that audiences around the world have found mesmerizing and startling in its beauty and originality.
In the ten years since Matthew Bourne started his dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, he has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting choreographers at work today. His experimental style can be seen in his original dances-such as Town and Country, a work that includes a pas de deux that Bourne describes as "a Fred and Ginger number for two men"-and in his new versions of ballet classics, including his groundbreaking Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, and The Nutcracker, set in a Dickensian orphanage. Drawing on his years of studying all varieties of dance as well as on his vast knowledge of dance history, theater, and popular culture, Bourne has been able to fuse elements of classical and modern dance, theatrical innovation, and sexual expression in a new way, reflecting a uniquely ironic, postmodern sensibility in his playing with the elements of classical dance and reexamining the traditional relationships between-and within-the sexes.
In these interviews with the distinguished dance and theater critic Alastair Macaulay, Bourne demonstrates persuasively just how he has synthesized these disparate elements to create an experience that audiences around the world have found mesmerizing and startling in its beauty and originality.
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Alastair Macaulay is currently chief theater critic of the Financial Times. From 1988 to 1992, he served as guest dance critic for The New Yorker; he has also written a biography of Margot Fonteyn and is at work on a biography of Merce Cunningham for FSG.
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Dance history, the art of choreography, the inner workings of a dance company and analysis of the works of the daring English choreographer Matthew Bourne all appear here in one entertaining and instructive volume. Macaulay, a distinguished dance and theater critic (currently for the Financial Times) can be overly fussy and analytical in these interviews, and Bourne, on the other hand, has been criticized for creating overly simplified, "popular" (as an epithet) modern dance. But together, the pair, who met when Macaulay was Bourne's dance history lecturer at the Laban Centre for Movement in London, keep each other focused and on task, creating an illuminating chronological account of the development of one of today's most intriguing choreographers. Bourne is best known in this country for his 1998 Tony Award-winning production of the ballet Swan Lake on Broadway, in which the swans were portrayed by male dancers. Bourne's description of his fascination with old movie musicals ("Adventures in Motion Pictures" is the name of his dance company), his late dance training, his understanding of music and thoughts on his contemporaries (Mark Morris, among others), his creative relationships with his dancers all are part of Macaulay's quest to understand movement and place works within a historical framework. This is a serious exploration of the practical and theoretical territory of dance-making, a real treat and a must for dance aficionados and for anyone intrigued by the creative process.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 057119706X
- ISBN 13 9780571197064
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
- EditorMacaulay Alastair
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