Monday, 10 March 2008

Jiri Kylian

I know that my culture-related posts are not the most popular ones but I absolutely want to show this to you - to i because it is her nameday and she likes ballet as much as I do (we both have our "little ballerina" picture from the eighties, ha?) and to nanaimo because she commented a few days ago about having understand something of modern dance for the first time and I want to prove that good "new" dance is not mystical...and to tarelle because he have met the above-listed ladies at a modern dance performance in Trafo, or was I just dreaming that?

Anyway, this piece is a contemporary one but still, there is no need to understand it, it is just simply nice to look at. The dancers are just great (the company we have seen with beansoup: the Nederlands Dans Theater.) I hope you have ten minutes for it - don't be scared, it has nice music but that starts only after two minutes (a wonderful Mozart). It is good picture quality, even on fullscreen. (And if you like it you can have the second part -entirely consisting of duetts- type "Kylian petite mort in the youtube browser.)





4 comments:

i said...

I happily noticed, that they are NOT naked and it didn't change later either :D
And what the most important is, I see culture from home. You solved a big big problem of mine - for some time.
Thank you very much!!

lynx said...

I somewhat feel responsible for your cultural well-being :-) I'm glad you like it!

Do you remember when we have seen the ballet "Mayerling" in the Opera and the main dancer almost fell? :-D

(I have just realized that I've seen at least one dance-performance with each fo the bloggers:
-mayerling with i
-nederlands dans theater with beansoup
-a crazy japanese woman with tarelle
-"experidance" with nanaimo

how funny is that! :-)

tarelle said...

Such a hot —and o so beautiful— choreography! I loved it, lynx, thank you so much, and we want more! Don't we, i?

Now, is it really un hasard that you went to at least one memorable dance event with each of us? I don't quite think so...

beansoup said...

Hey, this was really great - thanks for posting!!