The dance that inspired the Daleks

[Astro Pen]

I remember I read somewhere that the seamless motion of these dancers inspired the Daleks

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[Montero]

Huh, very plausible.

 

[Astro Pen]

I found the reference in an interview with Terry Nation:


How did you originally visualise the Daleks?
I knew that I didn’t want them to be men dressed up. That was my first personal brief. I had seen the Georgian State Dancers – the girls who move with long skirts and appear not to move – they just glide. That was the kind of image I wanted to get. I knew what the voice would sound like, because it had to be mechanical and broken down into syllables all the time. I made a few mistakes.

TV writer Terry Nation talks about creating the Daleks and about his insecurities and nightmares

(This was published later in the Huffington Post) As mentioned in yesterday’s blog, last century I interviewed Terry Nation, who created the Daleks for the BBC TV series Doctor Who. We talked in 19…

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[Ursa major]

They also seem to have been themselves inspired by something/someone British:

The dancer is, of course, holding his slapping fish hidden inside his long sleeves.