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KARLSSON, M: Play / Choreography, Set & Costume Design ALEXANDER EKMAN / CORPS DE BALLET OF THE OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS / Dance Director AURÉLIE DUPONT / Filmed in HD at the Opéra national de Paris / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 106 Minutes
UPC: 3760115301559
- Barcode : 3760115301559
- Running time : 106 min.
- Booklet : FR/ENG
- Image : Color, 16/9, NTSC
- Sound : PCM 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1
- Region code : 0
A sparkling personality on the contemporary dance scene, Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman has been invited for the first time to work with the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. His language, both visceral and tinged with humour, combining theatricality, and classical and contemporary vocabulary alike, perfectly resonates with the incredible versatility and stage presence of the Ballet : the result is Play, a piece that evokes the world of childhood and its careless pleasures. But beyond pure entertainment, this performance contemplates the meaning and the importance of play when we become adults…
Best known for the spectacular quality of his pieces and their dreamlike imagery, like for instance his Midsummer Night’s Dream (released on DVD and Blu-ray by BelAir Classiques), the Swedish choreographer fills the stage of the Palais Garnier with an entrancing energy. The metallic structures, dancers suspended in space, and the elevations are but a few of the powerful images that will strike the audience’s imagination !
For this new creation, Alexander Ekman worked with his acolyte composer Mikael Karlsson, but also with a talented team of instrumentalists not often seen on the stage of the Palais Garnier, among which gospel singer Callie Day, or the incredible drums and marimba player Adelaïde Ferrière. An unexpected performance, carried along by enticing rhythms and communicative energy !
