Repertoire: Fall River Legend, Troy Game, The Beloved, John Henry.
Der Geburtsort des Dance Theatre of Harlem war eine stillgelegte Garage im New Yorker Schwarzenviertel Harlem. Arthur Mitchell, Gründer und bis heute künstlerischer Leiter, wollte sich mit der Gründung einer Ballettschule für...
Following last month's release of Bamboo Dream featuring the music of Arvo Pärt, celebratde choreographer Lin Hwaimin has selected compositions from suits for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, combining his musicwith movements derived from Chinese martial arts of Tai Chi.
During the...
Cloud Gate's Dance Theatre's extraordinary blend of contemporary dance, ballet and traditional Chinese dance takes its influence from elements as diverse as calligraphy, meditation and martial arts. Here in the choreography of the artistic director Lin Hwai-Min, age-old beliefs and stories are...
Grupo Corpo, or 'Body Group' are a Brazilian Dance Company who combine the sensuality of Afro-Brazilian dance formsand the technical prowess of ballet with a contemporary, highly theatrical sensibility.
Blending Brazilian spirit with African Rhythm and elements of classical ballet, the group have...
Beethoven's 7th Symphonyis often referred to as a 'dance symphony'. Beethoven wrote the symphony between 1812 and 1813, the last years of the Napoleonic wars, and the choreographer Toer van Schayk feels that it expresses the composer's ecstatic longing to reach the sublime future he was convinced...
For the American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) dance is an international art which discloses itself to all people because it doesn"t require any spoken language. Everywhere that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre appeared, the audiences greeted the harmonic beauty, the...
Leos Janacek (Intimate Pages), Bill Withers (Lonely Town, Lonely Street)
ArtHaus Musik
ISBN / Barcode: 4006680102849
Intimate Pages
The musical and thematic basis for choreographer Christopher Bruce’s ballet “Intimate Pages” was the String Quartet No. 2 by the Czech composer Leoš Janáèek. Indeed, Bruce even borrowed the quartet’s title for his choreographed work. A victim of unrequited love, the...
