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presents
Professor Joanne Butterworth
University of Malta
HAMLET,
THE BALLET: EXAMINING A CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
What are the considerations and conditions for
the creation of new narrative ballets in the classical genre? Northern Ballet,
based in Leeds, has a constitution which specifies that the company should
create, produce and perform such ballets. This paper investigates the creative
and rehearsal processes of one ballet, David Nixon’s Hamlet (2008). The work was set in 1940s occupied Paris, and
challenged the company to explore and create a tragedy, in ballet, where
believable characters play out their lives under extraordinary and fearful
conditions. How was a Shakespearian text transformed into dance? What influences were pertinent and how
were the interdisciplinary elements perceived?
Jo Butterworth is Professor of Dance
Studies at the University of Malta, where
she set up a new Dance department in 2010 and was founding Director of the
School of Performing Arts. Formerly Head of Dance at Bretton Hall
College/University of Leeds, she initiated the BA Hons Dance and MA in
Performance Studies programmes. Her research interests focus on dance making
and its applications; she co-edited
Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader with Liesbeth Wilschut in
2009, and published Dance Studies: the
Basics in 2012.
Tuesday 23rd
February
1pm
Grove Dance Theatre
All interested members of
staff, faculty and students are welcome.
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