Lady Jane Flashcards
What is the action content?
- courtly gestures - hand to hand partnering with lifting. Tie adjusting gesture. Bowing in a formal manner
- turning
- hip rolls
- basic ballet allegro
- small steps
- arms crossed over body (female)
- presenting and offering
- kissing/licking gesture
- shudder to establish excitement
What is the spacial content?
- background couples in straight line US
- central dancers in foreground
- upright torso - mid to high level
- reserved use of body in space
- movements on the floor
What is the dynamic content?
- smooth
- light
- grounded
- slow
- reserved
- neat
- consistent all the way through
- sustained
What is the relationship content?
- three women - represent 3 women named in song
- partners side by side
- M/F courtly dancing - manipulation
- male lead partners multiple females
- eye contact
- returning to “Jane” multiple times during the song linking to the lyric ‘I pledge my truth to Lady Jane’
Interpretations?
- the 3 women that duet with the lead male, represents free love that happened in the 60s.
- The different types of levels shows men putting women on a pedestal
- female dancer (Lady Jane) ends in centre projecting out to audience, which replicates the 2nd wave of feminism in the 60s.
- courtly gestures contrast with overtly sexual and exaggerated cartoon like gestures
- an overarching mood of irony is shown - ends w/ lyric “life is secure with Lady Jane” but the movement content of interchanging duets.
Aural setting?
Style - Elizabethan/Baroque pop ( By Mick Jagger and Keith Richards)
Tempo/Time Signature - steady
Volume/Rhythm - steady
Instruments - guitar acoustic, harpsichord, piano, dulcimer (twang noise)
Audible Aspects - bum slap
Key lyrics and how music enhances dance?
“I’ve done what i can” - attitudes towards women
“Sweet lady” (each verse) - each dancer. Tells you who the dancers are
> courtly gestures marry with old time instruments. E.g. dulcimer
Lighting?
Direction light - side lights. spotlight, pool of light in centre. cyclorama. spotlight, central focus (at end)
Colour - blue hue on floor, white, red
Intensity - couple travel into light, draws attention. contrast of red and blue. lights up female dancers (at end)
Intensity - low/mid intensity. decreases in intensity (at end)
What is the transition into Lady Jane
As female dancer from LRR dances, other dancers men strut females walk in time with music, men lining downstage, women upstage.
- blonde male in red suit fixes his tie
- song changes, men turn around all dancers walk together towards CS
- he meets lady jane CS and offers his hand, she takes it
Explain the promenade motif
Male dancer assist her, holding hand one above her head and one to the side, she brings her right leg in and then holds it in second as she it turned, male dancer walks around her to turn
What is Lady Jane about
