Parody is one of the very usual format reflecting itself of original text in terms of subjective and formal structure. Also, it contains the features like as creation, recreation, and crossing point between creation and criticism. Applying the techniq...
Parody is one of the very usual format reflecting itself of original text in terms of subjective and formal structure. Also, it contains the features like as creation, recreation, and crossing point between creation and criticism. Applying the technique of parody has been started with literature and extended to most of artistic area, such as music, dance, architecture, movie, play, advertisement and so on, and recently attract a lot of interest and research.
As it is passing by 20C and 21C, ballet has experienced many changes and constant development, and they created new trend of techniques and expressionism. Classic ballet, which had once experienced recession due to introduction of modern dance, opened a new era with the meaning of breaking out of stiffed presence and stepping forward into upgraded trends. Also, modern ballet is trying to make totally new ballet era by adapting variety of artistic fields, such as music, literature, and the fine art without insisting one area of genre, and try to come up with new dance form by mixing with jazz, fork dance, ballet. The modern ballet containing these parodies has been represented in this point of time.
The purpose of the research is to suggest variety of material choice for ballet creation and dance composition by analyzing the trends of parody from modern ballet which are emphasized mainly on 'Swan Lake' by Matthew Bourne, 'The Nutcracker' by Morris Bejart, 'Giselle' by Mats EK.
'Swan Lake', 'The Nutcracker', 'Giselle' are the most common ones that have been rewritten by a choreographers. Among them, 'Swan Lake' by Matthew Bourne, 'The Nutcracker' by Morris Bejart, 'Giselle' by Mats EK have the original text of classic ballet, and it is indicated in work that they are parodied from original.
So, the result of analyzing 'Swan Lake' by Matthew Bourne, 'The Nutcracker' by Morris Bejart, and 'Giselle' by Mats EK came to conclusion as below.
At first, the special mark of modern ballet is that the original texts of them have been deteriorated. The complexity and variety of modern life have been reflected to the new versions of texts, which had not existed in the original versions.
Secondly, they start with denying the right and evidence of original text. In other word, modern versions seem to be sarcastic and denying the formality of classic versions of texts
At third, the modern choreographers did not criticise and disrespect the original versions of texts, but they modified them into new version which reflect the modern life and society more.
As mentioned above, we know that the modern ballet is a active expression for complexity of modern society, freedom of material choice, and facing up to the reality. This is not just copying the original text, but implicating the meaning of criticism, and creation by recreating from the original text through a form of parody ballet.