Six Ballets by Hans van Manen
2007
Monarda Music (Hersteller)
080-728015019-3 (EAN)
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Born on July 11, 1932 Hans van Manen became one of the famous Dutch ballet dancers and choreographers. In 1960 he founded the Nederlands Dans Theater and was its art director from 1961 until 1970. From 1974 until 1987 he worked for the Dutch National Ballet. He was awarded by the Deutschen Tanzpreis in 1993, by the Erasmus Prize in 2000 and in 2004 by the Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg. His work includes more than 90 choreographies.
Over ten years ago a few reviewers criticized Hans van Manen for overly repeating himself. His work gave them a feeling of “déjà vu”, the impression that they had seen it all before. Going on pensionable age, the choreographer responded to the criticism as if stung, showing them that he was still a force to be reckoned with. In barely two years’ time, between June 1995 and June 1997, he created six masterpieces in a row which later are produced by NPS Television and are included in this DVD.
DVD1 - NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER
CHOREOGRAPHIES: HANS VAN MANEN
Déjà vu?
The first in the series he called Déjà vu. “And? Have you seen anything like this before?” he seemed to fix his critics good and proper. He created Déjà vu in June 1995 for two dancers in the junior troupe: Yolanda Martin and Fabrice Mazliah, both just twenty years old. Their entrée is highly unorthodox. They crawl backwards from the wings on all fours, dressed in black cat suits, one from the left, the other from the right. He uses Arvo Pärt’s music Fratres – which had, indeed, been used over and over by choreographers from all over the world – as the complement of a refined and intense struggle for power between two equal partners, man and woman.
Music: ARVO PÄRT - Fratres
Set and Costume Design by KESO DEKKER
SOLO
Solo was created barely a year later, in January 1997, but does form the other end of Van Manen’s art of dancing. Made to measure for the junior troupe, it is a sparkling relay of three boys, alternating at breakneck speed, to two parts of Bach’s First Violin Partita. When this work opened, the audience nearly stood on their seats with enthusiasm.
Music by J. S. BACH – Partita No. 1 for solo violin
Performed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN, violin
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOORT
Kammerballett
Three months later Kammerballett opened, for eight dancers of the main troupe, and with seemingly ill-matched piano music. This “chamber ballet” is in line with Compositie, which was created one year before, inspired by Mondriaan’s work.
Music by:
KARA KARAYEV – 24 preludes for piano Nos. 1,2,3 and 5
VLADIMIR YURIGIN-KLEVKE, piano
DOMENICO SCARLATTI – Sonata in C major K.159 Allegro
IVO POGORELIĆ, piano
JOHN CAGE - In a landscape
STEPHEN DRURY, piano
DOMENICO SCARLATTI – Sonata in B minor K. 87 Andante
IVO POGORELIĆ, piano
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOORT
The Old Man and Me
This work is a special dedication to Nederlands Dans Theater III founded by Jiří Kylián in 1991, for dancers aged forty and over, especially for his Kylián’s wife Sabine Kupferberg who had just reached the age of forty that year. Hans van Manen created Evergreens and Different partners for the troupe. He tailored the third duet, The Old Man and Me, to the comical and expressive talents of Sabine Kupferberg and Gérard Lemaitre, then 44 and 59 years old. As he often did, he used a great variety of musical works connecting them by dance: J.J. Cale’s The Old Man and Me and Stravinsky’s hilarious Circus Polka.
Music by
J.J. Cale – The Old Man and Me
Performed by J.J. CALE
Igor Stravinsky – Circus Polka
Performed by the CBC Symphony Orchestra and Igor Strawinsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio from the Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K. 488
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOOR
DVD2 - HET NATIONALE BALLET
CHOREOGRAPHIES: HANS VAN MANEN
Frank Bridge Variations
Ted Brandsen, the National Ballet’s new artistic director, was ready to welcome him with open arms and after eighteen years Van Manen returned as their regular choreographer. The first work he created for the company in this capacity were the Frank Bridge Variations, set to nine out of the eleven movements of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, in which Benjamin Britten had used a theme from his old teacher. Strikingly, in this work Van Manen replaced the pointe technique by an earthly tone in the expression. In the funeral march the dancers merely walk the stage in stern patterns. The “less is more” adage is even more strongly expressed in the duets: a few turns, a few lifts, and maximum power of expression. Limitation reveals the master. Call it “déjà vu”, if you like.
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN – Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by BERT DALHUYSEN
Two Pieces for HET
The ballet originally comprised three parts, but without the first ensemble part Van Manen felt it was stronger, so that only the pas de deux remained: Two Pieces for HET. The two dancers explore each other and the room to the stirring music of the Estonian composer Tüürk, as in a nervously alternating courtship display without any fixed role patterns. The movement quiets down in an adagio to the stilled tunes of Pärt’s Psalom, where the partners feel each other in a sensual love-play full of subdued tension. Van Manen received, among other awards, the Erasmus Award and the Benois de la Danse, but these honours sharply contrasted with the attitude he experienced from Nederlands Dans Theater. He felt neglected by the management. In 2004 they broke up.
Music by ERRKI-SVEN “TÜÜRK” & Arvo PÄRT – Psalmon
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by Jan Hofstra Hans van Manen, geboren am 11. Juli 1932, ist einer der bekanntesten holländischen Balletttänzer und Choreografen. 1960 gründete er das Nederlands Dans Theater und war von 1961 bis 1970 dessen künstlerischer Direktor. Von 1974 bis 1987 arbeitete er für das Niederländische Nationalballett. Er wurde 1993 mit dem Deutschen Tanzpreis ausgezeichnet, erhielt 2000 den Erasmuspreis und 2004 den Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg. Seine Arbeit umfasst mehr als 90 Choreografien.
Vor vielen Jahren rügten Kritiker Hans van Manen dafür, dass er sich immer wiederhole. Seine Arbeit gäbe ihnen das Gefühl eines Déjà vu, den Eindruck, dass sie alles schon einmal gesehen hätten. Der Choreograf, damals bereits im rentenfähigen Alter, reagierte auf seine Kritiker sehr bissig und bewies ihnen, dass er immer noch eine feste Größe ist. In gerade einmal zwei Jahren, zwischen Juni 1995 und Juni 1997, schuf er am Stück sechs Meisterwerke, die später vom Holländischen Fernsehen produziert wurden und auf dieser DVD enthalten sind.
Over ten years ago a few reviewers criticized Hans van Manen for overly repeating himself. His work gave them a feeling of “déjà vu”, the impression that they had seen it all before. Going on pensionable age, the choreographer responded to the criticism as if stung, showing them that he was still a force to be reckoned with. In barely two years’ time, between June 1995 and June 1997, he created six masterpieces in a row which later are produced by NPS Television and are included in this DVD.
DVD1 - NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER
CHOREOGRAPHIES: HANS VAN MANEN
Déjà vu?
The first in the series he called Déjà vu. “And? Have you seen anything like this before?” he seemed to fix his critics good and proper. He created Déjà vu in June 1995 for two dancers in the junior troupe: Yolanda Martin and Fabrice Mazliah, both just twenty years old. Their entrée is highly unorthodox. They crawl backwards from the wings on all fours, dressed in black cat suits, one from the left, the other from the right. He uses Arvo Pärt’s music Fratres – which had, indeed, been used over and over by choreographers from all over the world – as the complement of a refined and intense struggle for power between two equal partners, man and woman.
Music: ARVO PÄRT - Fratres
Set and Costume Design by KESO DEKKER
SOLO
Solo was created barely a year later, in January 1997, but does form the other end of Van Manen’s art of dancing. Made to measure for the junior troupe, it is a sparkling relay of three boys, alternating at breakneck speed, to two parts of Bach’s First Violin Partita. When this work opened, the audience nearly stood on their seats with enthusiasm.
Music by J. S. BACH – Partita No. 1 for solo violin
Performed by SIGISWALD KUIJKEN, violin
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOORT
Kammerballett
Three months later Kammerballett opened, for eight dancers of the main troupe, and with seemingly ill-matched piano music. This “chamber ballet” is in line with Compositie, which was created one year before, inspired by Mondriaan’s work.
Music by:
KARA KARAYEV – 24 preludes for piano Nos. 1,2,3 and 5
VLADIMIR YURIGIN-KLEVKE, piano
DOMENICO SCARLATTI – Sonata in C major K.159 Allegro
IVO POGORELIĆ, piano
JOHN CAGE - In a landscape
STEPHEN DRURY, piano
DOMENICO SCARLATTI – Sonata in B minor K. 87 Andante
IVO POGORELIĆ, piano
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOORT
The Old Man and Me
This work is a special dedication to Nederlands Dans Theater III founded by Jiří Kylián in 1991, for dancers aged forty and over, especially for his Kylián’s wife Sabine Kupferberg who had just reached the age of forty that year. Hans van Manen created Evergreens and Different partners for the troupe. He tailored the third duet, The Old Man and Me, to the comical and expressive talents of Sabine Kupferberg and Gérard Lemaitre, then 44 and 59 years old. As he often did, he used a great variety of musical works connecting them by dance: J.J. Cale’s The Old Man and Me and Stravinsky’s hilarious Circus Polka.
Music by
J.J. Cale – The Old Man and Me
Performed by J.J. CALE
Igor Stravinsky – Circus Polka
Performed by the CBC Symphony Orchestra and Igor Strawinsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio from the Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K. 488
Performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by JOOP CABOOR
DVD2 - HET NATIONALE BALLET
CHOREOGRAPHIES: HANS VAN MANEN
Frank Bridge Variations
Ted Brandsen, the National Ballet’s new artistic director, was ready to welcome him with open arms and after eighteen years Van Manen returned as their regular choreographer. The first work he created for the company in this capacity were the Frank Bridge Variations, set to nine out of the eleven movements of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, in which Benjamin Britten had used a theme from his old teacher. Strikingly, in this work Van Manen replaced the pointe technique by an earthly tone in the expression. In the funeral march the dancers merely walk the stage in stern patterns. The “less is more” adage is even more strongly expressed in the duets: a few turns, a few lifts, and maximum power of expression. Limitation reveals the master. Call it “déjà vu”, if you like.
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN – Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by BERT DALHUYSEN
Two Pieces for HET
The ballet originally comprised three parts, but without the first ensemble part Van Manen felt it was stronger, so that only the pas de deux remained: Two Pieces for HET. The two dancers explore each other and the room to the stirring music of the Estonian composer Tüürk, as in a nervously alternating courtship display without any fixed role patterns. The movement quiets down in an adagio to the stilled tunes of Pärt’s Psalom, where the partners feel each other in a sensual love-play full of subdued tension. Van Manen received, among other awards, the Erasmus Award and the Benois de la Danse, but these honours sharply contrasted with the attitude he experienced from Nederlands Dans Theater. He felt neglected by the management. In 2004 they broke up.
Music by ERRKI-SVEN “TÜÜRK” & Arvo PÄRT – Psalmon
Costumes by KESO DEKKER
Light design by Jan Hofstra Hans van Manen, geboren am 11. Juli 1932, ist einer der bekanntesten holländischen Balletttänzer und Choreografen. 1960 gründete er das Nederlands Dans Theater und war von 1961 bis 1970 dessen künstlerischer Direktor. Von 1974 bis 1987 arbeitete er für das Niederländische Nationalballett. Er wurde 1993 mit dem Deutschen Tanzpreis ausgezeichnet, erhielt 2000 den Erasmuspreis und 2004 den Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg. Seine Arbeit umfasst mehr als 90 Choreografien.
Vor vielen Jahren rügten Kritiker Hans van Manen dafür, dass er sich immer wiederhole. Seine Arbeit gäbe ihnen das Gefühl eines Déjà vu, den Eindruck, dass sie alles schon einmal gesehen hätten. Der Choreograf, damals bereits im rentenfähigen Alter, reagierte auf seine Kritiker sehr bissig und bewies ihnen, dass er immer noch eine feste Größe ist. In gerade einmal zwei Jahren, zwischen Juni 1995 und Juni 1997, schuf er am Stück sechs Meisterwerke, die später vom Holländischen Fernsehen produziert wurden und auf dieser DVD enthalten sind.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.8.2007 |
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| Sprache | englisch; französisch; deutsch; spanisch |
| Maße | 135 x 190 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Schlagworte | Ballett • Hans van Manen • Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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