How ‘Little Women’ Throws a Dance Party | Anatomy of a Scene

Описание: There’s a moment in Greta Gerwig’s new film adaptation of “Little Women” that ignites the screen with as much energy as a fire that sets ablaze a character’s dress in the scene prior.

Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) is at a party with Theodore “Laurie” Laurence (Timothée Chalamet). He asks her to dance. But she’s accidentally scorched a part of her dress and doesn’t want other guests to see. Laurie takes Jo outside, and they have their own mini-dance party on the front porch bathed in the light of the larger party inside.

They dance in ways that are refined, silly, playful and buoyant all at once. The moment, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, has a bit of a punk-rock rebellion quality to it, but also keeps with the time.
“I wanted it to feel both totally modern and period accurate,” Gerwig said during an interview at The Times.

“I didn’t want them to be doing dances they wouldn’t necessarily know. But I did want it to feel joyful and young, like kids dance.”
Gerwig said the idea for this dance came from a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that features Gilda Radner and Steve Martin, where the two meet in a nightclub and trip the light fantastic.

“For our film, we wanted it to be this shimmery moment that feels like maybe it almost didn’t even happen,” she said.

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