7734 (2010) Flashcards
What is the subject matter of 7734?
-7734 questions the human forces and weaknesses that have manufactured hell on earth whilst illuminating both our capacity for survival and the poetry of hope
What is clever about the name of the title?
-no name, all people captured were stripped of their identity and became just a number
-spells hell upside down
-links into quote “does your point of view dictate what you see, or does what you see dictate your point of view”
-7/7/34 is the first date of the specific jewish acts of discrimination to be shown
-personal to her because it is her inherited pain and memory
What research did she conduct?
-she went to Poland and visited concentration camp Auschwitz after she had left school
Why did this work lend itself to being a large scale work?
-concept is about a very big world problem, so work needs to be longer and bigger to address the topic in it’s needed depth
-commissioned by large scale venues
Describe the opening movement from this work and interpret what it shows/ can be used for
-there are silk and sheets all over the stage and USL there’s a watch tower covered in silk, represents propaganda, how they glossed over everything. There’s a man stood DS facing US, representing Wagner, and he performs conducting gestures, to which dancers underneath the silk sheets lift their hands up raising the sheet in time to his conducting.
-Wagner was closely involved with Hitler and together they’re who are responsible for the halocaust. The music being played is a piece composed by Wagner, but suggests he was manipulating and controlling the situation, and the dancers
-shows nothing is ruled out, using a piece of music (had to be changed when toured to Israel due to disrespect), also use of physical setting to inform choreographic intention
Describe some movements in the duet between a male and female and what they show
-a male and female emerge from underneath the sheets, the male in boxer shorts and the female in a nightgown. Their duet is intimate and they roll around together, tightly wrapped around each other hugging, and then they begin removing their clothes.
-this shows Hitlers intentions of wanting an Aryan pure race, his control and manipulation over procreation
Describe the 2 movements which show the use of gas chambers and interpret what they can be used to show
-one dancer is stood in a black jacket DSL and there is a diagonal line of dancers in white stood behind one another, and the dancer in black opens his arms to second, pushes his chest forwards and blows, to which the dancers respond in a canon by knocking their heads back and rippling the arms
-shows how gas chambers were used to quickly kill a huge amount of people very effortlessly
-dry ice/ smoke is lit up on stage with changing coloured lights, representing the gas chambers. A figure appears in the light and then disappears, suggesting their life was taken
-shows use of physical setting and theatricality to inform choreographic intention
Describe and interpret the very last scene of the work
