Within Her Eyes Flashcards
Choreographer
James cousins
Company
James cousins company
Premiere date
February 2016
Dance style
Contemporary/contact work — partnering
- using weight + momentum for flow
Choreographic approach
Material from the stage version ‘there we have been’
Collaboration and improvisation — recorded + selected movements
Lisa was not allowed to look at Aaron, spirals introduced — intimate + intertwined feeling
Starting point/stimulus
Love story with a twist - from personal experience and narratives
Friendship growing into love
Love + loss
Dependency + loyalty
Longing + memory
Choreographic intention/theme
To create a dance film with emotional intensity and energy
Abstract love story but open for interpretation
Dancers
1 x M = Aaron
1 x F = Lisa
Structure
A prologue and 6 sections — one seamless journey - narrative
Start = as far away from each other as possible while maintaining contact
End = as close as possible
Aural composer + overview
Seymour Milton
Create tension but be delicate to reflect relationship
Sound score with strings + piano — emotive + with fragile delicate quality
With electronic sounds
Collaboration between music + choreography
Costume designer + overview
Lisa = vulnerable, fragile + conservative = modest with light tones - ethereal
- thin shirt buttoned to top, white
- beige long skirt
- colour palette reflects natural environment
Aaron = strong support — khaki jumpsuit + brown trousers
- dark earthy tones — he is grounding Lisa
Lighting designer + overview
Natural lighting
Relient on welsh weather - grey - intense atmosphere
Added filters through editing for darker undertones to emphasise grey and make more intense
Performance environment
- sense of isolation — bare open vast landscapes
- raw delicate unstable relationship
- tension
- help reflect relationship - starting open mountainside finishing more intimate in forest - low in grass - quarry
