The Judas Tree by Kenneth MacMillan, music by Brian Elias : the Royal Ballet.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

MacMillan, Kenneth, performer.

Elias, Brian, composer.

Channel Four (Great Britain)

NVC Arts.

A Warner Music GROUP COMPANY.

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (38 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Channel Four Television Corporation : NVC Arts : A Warner Music Group Company, 1997.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

This provocative final ballet of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's illustrious career restages the story of Judas in East London, where mob mentality incites a gang of male construction workers to inflict deplorable violence upon an innocent woman, and then on the only man among them who tries to protect her. MacMillan and composer Brian Elias wanted to write something "meaningful and powerful" in response to recent horrors in world news, like the Tiananmen Square massacre. Although MacMillan's work is, by design, open to multiple interpretations, his stinging rebuke of not-so-innocent bystanders comes through in the ballet's themes and visceral imagery, as well as in the Kahlil Gibran epigraph that accompanies it: "As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrongdoer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." Elias's feverish score makes shrewd use of dissonant strings and winds, steel drums, celesta and harp, vividly expressing both the horror of assault and the quiet moments of tension when violence is not yet certain

Contents:

The Judas Tree / Kenneth MacMillan.

Participant:

Kenneth MacMillan.

Notes:

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: MacMillan, Kenneth. Judas Tree.

OCLC:

1190903509

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.