"Nijinsky" : a ballet / by John Neumeier ; music by Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitri Shostakovich ; choreography and lighting, set and costume design based partly on original sketches by Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois, John Neumeier ; a co-production by C Major Entertainment GmbH, NDR, NHK.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Neumeier, John, 1939- choreographer, costume designer, lighting designer.
• Grimm, Thomas, 1942- television director.
• Hamburger Ballett, performer.
• C Major Entertainment GmbH, production company.
• Norddeutscher Rundfunk, production company.
• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai, production company.

Series:

• Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ballets.

Genre:

• Ballets (Dance)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : C Major Entertainment, 2017.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

"Nijinsky" is the title of this "choreographic approach" to a dance phenomenon that has been part of Neumeier's life ever since the beginning of his career. During his approximately ten years as a dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky set a new standard both technically and expressively, while in his choreographic work he pointed the way towards modern dance. His personal fate and mental illness that forced him to spend the last 30 years of his life in various asylums and in the keeping of his wife gave his short artistic career an even more aweinspiring and sensational quality. All three aspects - the dancer, the choreographer and the person Nijinsky - form the starting point for John Neumeier's latest creation. Neumeier, who as early as 1979 presented a short ballet "Vaslav", is regarded as one of the leading Nijinsky experts worldwide. Nevertheless, it was not without reluctance that he took up the task of honouring through dance a dance legend: "In creating a work about a historical person, what aspect should we concentrate on? Who was he truly: The man? The artist? Which witness, what information can we trust, which theories should one follow? What point of view can we take towards the complex puzzle Nijinsky? An instinctive choice must be made ..." and sensational quality.

Participant:

Carolina Agüero (Romola Nijinsky), Patricia Friza (Bronislava Nijinska), Aleix Martínez (Stanislav Nijinsky), Ivan Urban (Serge Diaghilev), Anna Laudere (Eleonora Bereda), Thomas Nijinsky (Carsten Jung), Silvia Azzoni (Tamara Karsavina), Alexandr Trusch (Nijinsky as Harlequin and Le spectre de la rose), Marc Jubete (Nijinsky as The golden slave and The faun), Lloyd Riggins (Nijinsky as Petrushka), Jacopo Bellussi (Leonid Massine), Ondrej Rudcenko (A pianist) ; Hamburg Ballet.

Notes:

• Recorded Hamburg State Opera.
• Title from title screen (viewed February 23, 2022).

OCLC:

1309919345

Publisher Number:

ASP5195330/marc