When was birdsong choreographed

Focus in the minute work shifts between group clusters and individuals, with a recurring duet for Deborah Saxon and Henry Montes. He embodies the butcher bird's song, reflecting it as though his skin were a sounding-board. The structure of the piece, according to Davies, radiates from this solo like waves of sound or ripples of water. A lovely image, but it can't prevent the sections of dance leading up to and away from the solo seeming diffuse. Andy Pink's sound score, a collage of electronic splutters, fragments the experience.

Dancers dart in response to it, holding poses when it stops, reforming lines as if following the rules of a children's game. Mariusz Raczynski patters about in jazzy routines, Pari Naderi holds very still, Laurent Cavanna carves decisive shapes.

Features Create. Resources Learn. More stuff. Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. Published in Nature Communications, this new article demonstrates a widespread loss of acoustic diversity and volume across the natural soundscapes of North America and Europe over the past 25 years.

Birdsong has long inspired human music, with multiple composers such as Mozart , Messiaen and Beethoven all taking inspiration from the feathered friends. Written in the 13th century, one of the earliest pieces of polyphonic music, Sumer is icumen in , features singers mimicking the sound of a cuckoo bird. Read more: 13 pieces of classical music inspired by birdsong.

Dr Butler and his team examined over , sites across North America and Europe and reconstructed their soundscapes over the last 25 years based on annual bird count data, and Xeno Canto , an online database of bird calls and songs.

Add to collection s Add to saved. A Magician brings three puppets to life and the dance explores their relationship with each other. Detailed, textured costume has lots of layers depicting geographic location as it reflects the cold Russian climate Lots of layers make the costume heavy therefore restricting movement.

Costume depicts an event: The Butter Week Fair. The Dance is filmed on location. The Men wore cycling outfits when cycling to Dover and orange boiler suits when leading N cars onto the ferry. The women wore swimming costumes in the beach scenes. The costumes are stereotypical the men wear suits to show masculinity and the women wear dresses to show femininity.