Three ballets by Jiří Kylián – led by his adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen.
Exactly 20 years separate Jiří Kylián’s solo Silent Cries and his black-and-white film, Car Men, made in 2006 in collaboration with the Dutch filmmaker, Boris Paval Conen. What unites the two works is the sheer expressiveness of the dance on the one hand, and the distinctive facial gestures and body language of the dancer Sabine Kupferberg on the other.
Kupferberg is the one who pulls the strings in Car Men, victim and plotter in equal measure, prepared at all times to stand up to life’s problems – as well as to her three co-actors Escamillo, Don José and Micaëla – with humour and enigmatic wit. And so at the end of Kylián’s unusual, slapstick-like tragicomedy, she simply abandons her three colleagues, self-assured and incorrigible – just like her role model, Carmen.
A film by Boris Paval Conen and Jiří Kylián
Carmen - Sabine Kupferberg
Don José - Karel Hruška
Escamillo - David Krügel
Samaritan Micaëla - Giogonda Barbuto
Music:
Georges Bizet, arr. Han Otten
Recorded in 2006
LA CATHÉDRALE ENGLOUTIE
Netherlands Dance Theatre
Jiří Kylián, choreographer
Music:
Claude Debussy
Recorded in 1975
SILENT CRIES
Sabine Kupferberg, dancer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Jiří Kylián, choreographer
Music:
Claude Debussy
Recorded in 1983
Exactly 20 years separate Jiří Kylián’s solo Silent Cries and his black-and-white film, Car Men, made in 2006 in collaboration with the Dutch filmmaker, Boris Paval Conen. What unites the two works is the sheer expressiveness of the dance on the one hand, and the distinctive facial gestures and body language of the dancer Sabine Kupferberg on the other.
Kupferberg is the one who pulls the strings in Car Men, victim and plotter in equal measure, prepared at all times to stand up to life’s problems – as well as to her three co-actors Escamillo, Don José and Micaëla – with humour and enigmatic wit. And so at the end of Kylián’s unusual, slapstick-like tragicomedy, she simply abandons her three colleagues, self-assured and incorrigible – just like her role model, Carmen.
A film by Boris Paval Conen and Jiří Kylián
Carmen - Sabine Kupferberg
Don José - Karel Hruška
Escamillo - David Krügel
Samaritan Micaëla - Giogonda Barbuto
Music:
Georges Bizet, arr. Han Otten
Recorded in 2006
LA CATHÉDRALE ENGLOUTIE
Netherlands Dance Theatre
Jiří Kylián, choreographer
Music:
Claude Debussy
Recorded in 1975
SILENT CRIES
Sabine Kupferberg, dancer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Jiří Kylián, choreographer
Music:
Claude Debussy
Recorded in 1983
