Genre:
Ballet
Release Date:
Aug 2007
Recorded:
2004
Number of Discs:
1
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround; Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:
EN, FR, DE, ES, IT
Aspect Ratio:
16:9 Anamorphic
Display:
NTSC
Catalog Number:
OA0981D
Lanza: Angelin Preljocaj Choreography
Marie-Agnès Gillot (Médée); Wilfried Romoli (Jason);
This double bill from one of the worlds leading choreographers offers two of his major works, danced by the Ballet de lopéra de Paris. The dream-like Songede Médée, with music by Mauro Lanza and freely based on the Greek myth of Medea, explores a womans soul, portraying her, paradoxically, as a tender loving mother and a tormented victim who sacrifices everything, including her children, for love. MC14/22 (Ceci est moncorps) is a meeting of the spiritual and the carnal, drawing on St Marks version of The Last Supper in the Bible: Take, eat: this is my body. Created for twelve male dancers, Preljocaj's Apostles of Movement, and with soundscapes by Tedd Zahmal, this powerfully sensual and passionate work is a hymn to the male body, stripped down to its deepest reality, juxtaposing the glorification of strength and the condemnation offorce.
Extra features
Interviews with Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Lanza and Brigitte Lefèvre, director of Ballet de LOpéra.