My aim within this essay is to analyse music and dance relationships and give examples of Direct Correlation through to Visualisation being used and what they represent

... Music and dance relationships My aim within this essay is to analyse music and dance relationships and give examples of Direct Correlation through to Visualisation being used and what they represent Direct Correlation is when the music and dance work together. An excellent example of this is displayed in the piece Swan Lake by Matthew Bourne. In this piece the music is of a classical genre containing such instruments as Flutes and Violins. The music relates to the movements as at certain points, the music peaks and picks up as this happens also the ballet vocab does to as well slow torso movements are performed when a slow flute is being played. Bourne uses stereotypical swan movements; this enhances the theme of the motif and also uses techniques such as cannon. When a pause of a long note is heard in the music, the dancers stretch there bodies using slow dynamics and

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