The reason of chosen Heinz Hall is because it’s size and location. Heinz Hall is a middle size theater, not as huge as Benedum Center. So that is a good size to be the venue of Petrushka, which is a 4 tableau ballet but not very long and Grand and magnificent. Also, because the theater is located in downtown Pittsburgh, so it will be is easy for me to look at the theater it in person and think about how to use the space. The color and decoration (decorative?) style in Heinz Hall will have provide an interesting comparison contrast with to the new design. By The put staging the very simple modern scenic design in the crowed crowded French Court style we will be a surprise for the audience.
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Mark Morris is an America dancer, choreographer and director. He created eight works for the San Francisco Ballet and three works for American Ballet Theatre, etc. His The Hard Nut presented by Mark Morris dance group since 1991. The weird reproduction is a good simple for my Petrushka. It is a retro-modern reimagining of The Nutcracker. The story based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original story and the comic book art of Charles Burns. Combine with beauty featuring Mark Morris’ modern dance choreography.
In Act 1 of Mark Morris dance group’s The Nutcracker, they also use the robot instead of Puppets. The photo above shows those two robots in the play. Although the dance style of those two robots not same with what I imagine for the Petrushka. But the costumes and character setting can be a sample for my redesign.
Another choreographer Martin Dvořák’s style and popping dance is perfect for Petrushka and other robot in Act1. In the new character setting, Petrushka, Ballerina and Moor are robot but really acting as human. So if can add a little bit robot feeling into human movement will be a good way to go. Compare Petrushka with Ballerina and Moor, Petrushka will has more robot feeling rather than others. In Martin Dvořák’s choreography, there are lots of movement are same with what I hope. Like his work USPUD_Emoticon Martin Dvořák did with ProART Company in 2014. (Figure 6) The choreography of this work is a great combination of flowing movement with a little bit