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5722	74'

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS – A BALLET IN TWO PARTS BY UWE SCHOLZ

In retrospect, the solo version of Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps (Sacre I) can be interpreted as a bleak, oppressive dance about his own life. The ballet is one of the late works by Uwe Scholz, one of the most important choreographers of the 20th century. Scholz brought Stravinsky’s work on...



7710	26'

DANSE DANSE DANSE - BLACK SPRING

The film Black Spring questions our way of looking at African bodies in movement. How can we surpass the numerous clichés that arise from our purely Western perception of Africa? Taken out of their usual context and endowed with a certain abstraction, the dancers’ movements are filmed in such a...



7809	26'

Danse Danse Danse CHRYSALIS

K has discovered that he is different from other insects. He thinks, he exists, he wants to become… a human being! Will his love affair with this lost young girl succeed? Basing his film on the latest choreography by the talented young UK dancer Wayne MacGregor, director Olivier Megaton...



7720	52'

4 EMPERORS AND 1 NIGHTINGALE

Monaco 1925 saw the world premiere of a unique ballet on music by Stravinsky, dresses and decor by Matisse and choreography by Balanchine (his first work in the west): 'Le Chant du Rossignol'. It was based on a fairytale by Andersen, produced by Diaghilev with his Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, and ...



7811	26'

Danse Danse Danse IF NOT, WHY NOT?

If questions did not exist, there would be no answers. Filmed in a contemporary setting, the Royal Festival Hall’s virtuoso resident choreographer Akram Khan and his company perform a complex modern dance piece inspired by the classical Indian dance form, Kathak.



7810	26'

Danse Danse Danse PIANO DI ROTTA

Somewhere between the compelling logic of the mind and the impulsive instinct of the body lies a territory as yet uncharted. Piano di Rotta maps a course through this place, a place beyond the known laws of the universe, an undiscovered country between the sky and the earth. Piano di Rotta is a...



7732	60'

KAZUO OHNO: I DANCE INTO THE LIGHT

Kazuo Ohno, the living legend of butoh-dance, 98 years old (born 1906), still dancing, says: "I am an old horse with a young heart". He was inspired by German Ausdruckstanz and dancer La Argentina in the 20's, started Butoh (with Hijikata) end of the fifties, as an expression of thankfulness for...



7723	5'

MOVING NORTH

Ten short dance films. From martial arts dance to classical dance, from ethnic dance to animated dance, from everyday dance to trance and ecstasy dance, from humorous dance to thoughtful dance. 10 original dance films produced across the 5 Nordic countries exploring the wide range of expressions...



7716	26'

THE MOEBIUS STRIP

Dance film, freely adapted from THE MOEBIUS STRIP, a choreography by Gilles Jobin. A sensual and hypnotic exploration in which the bodies of five dancers cross, overlap, follow, and embrace each other, creating a fascinating human sculpture gliding through space. The camera follows and dissects...



7715	54'

GILLES JOBIN: THE MOEBIUS TRIP

From January to April 2001, Gilles Jobin worked on the creation of his latest choreography in London: The Moebius Strip. This documentary gives an insider’s view of the creation of this contemporary dance piece by top Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and his work with four dancers and the...

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