Humanities & Media Arts Examples
Example 1
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Aurélie Dupont and Corps de Ballet in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2012). Copyright: Laurent Philippe
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A female dancer as Juliette, slowly walking across a raised white platform, and several ensemble dancers in hunched posed beneath the platform, in Sasha Waltz’s ballet.
Example 2
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Sasha Waltz’s Körper (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 2000). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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A massive dark wall on an otherwise empty stage, surrounded by several dancers and a bare, semi-circular concrete structure.
Example 3
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Sasha Waltz’s noBody (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, 2002). Copyright: Bernd
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A large, ballon-like cube floating within a bare, semi-circular concrete structure, with a single dancer beneath the cube.
Example 4
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Clémentine Deluy and Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres in Sasha Waltz’s Dido & Aeneas (Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, 2005). Copyright: Sebastian Bolesch.
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A female dancer and a male dancer, swimming in a tank filled with water and reaching out their arms towards one another.
Example 5
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The Corps de Ballet in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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Two groups of dancers, one dressed in black and the other in white, facing each other across two sloped white platforms that lie on top of one another.
Example 6
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Sasha Waltz & Guests in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2015). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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A cluster of ten dancers on the sloped platforms, leaning into each and resting their heads on the shoulders of the respective dancer in front of them.
Example 7
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Aurélie Dupont, Hervé Moreau, and Corps de Ballet in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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The dancers playing Roméo and Juliette looking at each from opposite ends of the white platform, and between them two rows of dancers lying on top of each other in hunched pose.
Example 8
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Aurélie Dupont and Hervé Moreau in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2012). Copyright: Laurent Philippe.
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The dancer playing Roméo kneeling on his left leg, lifting the dancer playing Juliette with his right shoulder, as she maintains balance by extending her legs and arms.
Example 9
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Aurélie Dupont and Hervé Moreu in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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Juliette , leaning backwards on her left leg, into Roméo’s chest, who is standing behind her to receive and catch her with his upper body.
Example 10
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Aurélie Dupont and Hervé Moreau in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Laurent Philippe.
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Juliette lifting Roméo, who is in an upside down position, with her arms across his torso, as he holds onto her right leg for additional support.
Example 11
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Aurélie Dupont and Hervé Moreau in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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Juliette at the edge of a raised upper platform looking down towards Roméo, who is on the lower platform and looking up towards Juliet.
Example 12
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Hervé Moreau in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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Roméo alone on stage in a black coat during his silent solo, looking upwards in the direction of his extended left arm as if holding on to something.
Example 13
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Aurélie Dupont, Hervé Moreau, and Corps de Ballet in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2012). Copyright: Laurent Philippe.
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The corpses of Roméo and Juliette lying next to each other in the centre of the stage, with several ensemble dancers kneeling and standing behind them in a cross-shaped cluster.
Example 14
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Aurélie Dupont and Hervé Moreau in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille, 2007). Copyright: Bernd Uhlig.
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Roméo and Juliette running across the stage during the love scene in Sasha Waltz’s ballet, with Roméo lifting Juliette by holding her torso with his right arm.