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Describe the choreographic style of Christopher Bruce, and explain how it is reflected in Rooster. Christopher Bruce began his career as an impressive dancer, but as a choreographer he is nothing less that passionate and humane. He enjoys making people feel something and people come to theatres to see just that and his ability to fuse contemporary technique with an important relationship to ballet. Being greatly inspired by humanity, Bruce deliberately incorporates issues in society …

…to conclude his initial and final inspirational idea of the sixties era. Christopher Bruce although approaching Rooster from a slightly different angle has still incorporated many of his common choreographic techniques to form a piece of work that not only relives and retells the sixties but largely reflects that era in a modern way that is accessible to many audiences and still is able to evoke the ideas which first inspired him to create Rooster.