5 out of 5 stars
Country, year: France/USA, 2009
Genre: Documentary
Director: Fredrick Wiseman
Language: French
Trailer:
Starring:
I decide to wait after trailer for showing you all with the picture of them, cuz there are a lot of dancers and choreographers.
Genus
Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Music: Joby Talbot et Deru, © Chester Music, Ltd.; represented by Premiere Music Group
Sets and Costumes: Vicki Mortimer
Video: Ravi Deepres
Lighting: Lucy Carter
With: Dorothée Gilbert, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Agnès Letestu, Jérémie Belingard, Mathieu Ganio, Benjamin Pech, Myriam Ould-Braham, Mathias Heymann, Laurène Levy
During Practice On Stage - Agnès Letestu & Mathieu Ganio
Casse-Noisette
Choreography: Rudolf Noureev, Les Éditions Mario Bois
However, Rudolf Noureev passed away in 1993. Patrice Bart is the one who lead this Ballet dance.
Patrice Bart
Music: Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski
Sets and Costumes: Nicholas Georgiadis
Lighting: Rui de Matos Machado
The Orchestra of the Paris National Opera
Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine/The Children’s Choir of the Paris National Opera
Musical Direction: Kevin Rhodes
With: Dorothée Gilbert, Laetitia Pujol, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche, José Martinez, Nolwenn Daniel, Myriam Ould-Braham, Karl Paquette, Stéphane Phavorin, Mallory Gaudion, Gil Isoart, Mathilde Froustey, Axel Ibot, Marc Moreau
Paquita
Choreography: Pierre Lacotte (from Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa)
Pierre Lacotte &
Ghislaine Thesmar
Music: Edouard Marie Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus (adapted by David Coleman)
Sets and Costumes: Luisa Spinatelli
Lighting: Philippe Albaric
Orchestra Colonne
Musical Direction: Paul Connelly
With: Dorothée Gilbert, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Agnès Letestu, Manuel Legris, Hervé Moreau, Muriel Zusperreguy, Mathias Heymann, Sarah Kora Dayanova, Mathilde Froustey, Simon Valastro
The front is Pierre Lacotte
The two dancers are
Agnès Letestu & Hervé Moreau
Paquita
Roméo et Juliette
Choreography: Sasha Waltz
Music: Hector Berlioz (Symphonie Dramatique Op.17, H.77, 1839)
Sets: Thomas Schenk and Sasha Waltz
Costumes: Bernd Skodzig
Lighting: David Finn
The Orchestra and the Choir of the Paris National Opera
Musical Direction: Valery Gergiev
With: Aurélie Dupont, Hervé Moreau
Aurélie Dupont & Hervé Moreau
La Maison de Bernarda
Choreography: Mats Ek
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Pour Orgue No. 2 En La Mineur BWV 593)
Performed by Karl Richter (p) 1974 Deutsche Grammophon, avec l’autorisation d’Universal Music Vision
Traditional Spanish Music, Narcisso Yepes, guitar (p) Deutsche Grammophon
Sets and Costumes: Merie-Louise Ekman
Lighting: Jorgen Jansson
Assistant Choreographer: Mariko Aoyama
With: Marie-Agnès Gillot, Laetitia Pujol, Clairemarie Osta, Manuel Legris, Aurélia Bellet, Amélie Lamoureux, Charlotte Ranson
Orphée et Eurydice
By Christoph W. Gluck—Dance-Opera by Pina Bausch
Choreography and Staging: Pina Bausch 1975 (Represented by L’Arche Editeur, Paris)
Music: Christophe Willibald Gluck
Sets, Costumes, and Lighting: Rolf Borzik
Assistant Choreographer: Dominique Mercy
Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble and Choir
Musical Direction: Thomas Hengelbrock
With: Yann Bridard
Le Songe de Médée
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Music: Mauro Lanza
Sets: Thierry Leproust
Costumes: Gilles Rosier
Ensemble Court-Circuit
Musical Direction: Pierre-André Valade, Fabrice Pierre
Musical Programming Ircam : Serge Lemouton
Sound Engineer : Jérémie Henrot
With: Émilie Cozette, Delphine Moussin, Wilfried Romoli, Yann Bridard, Stéphane Bullion, Muriel Zusperreguy, Alice Renavand
Émilie Cozette during practice.
Le Songe de Médée (on stage)
Opinion:
First of all, it took me a long while to actual writing this blog. Cuz there are a lot of information as you can see above. I admit I was a bit lazy for analyzing all of them and settled them down. For a very simple reason, I really love this documentary. And I couldn't let myself just sloppy writing some opinion without any information showing to you.
Back to the film, it's quite amazing that my friend, Sora, and I didn't figure out the movie is actually very long. Longer then the normal film, 2hr and 39 min. It isn't like most of the documentary, having narrator along the film. We just get to sneak a peek inside the world of ballet. We were like l'Opera de Paris itself, watching these dancers practice, and watching them shine on the stage. I love the gestures, the poses by those dancers. I wish to be one of them, which would only appear in dream of course. It does give some inspiration for my furniture deisgn. We will see how it going on for me then :)
My favorite star dancer are Agnès Letestu, Émilie Cozette. I really love Agnès during the practice of Paquita, I just couldn't take my eyes off her. Those poses... The dress floated along with her beautiful and elegant moves. It just made me tears a bit. I also like Émilie Cozette in Le Songe de Médée. I really love that choreography, the mixture of modern and classic. Bravo! Actually I love all of the dance choreographies they have chosen to shoot in the film. They all have their own very strong characters and spirits. Despite the dancing, the stages and the music that used in each choreography are all wondrous. Such as, I was amazed see the stage moving up during Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Waltz. The electric ray and the modern music mix with modern dancing in Genus are just thrilling!
I know for some people who love movies, probably didn't like it so much. However, I love it a lot!! :)) I hope you would enjoy it too!!!
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