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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0032031434295
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: KULTUR VIDEO
Manufacturer: KULTUR VIDEO
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: KULTUR VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 41474
Studio: KULTUR VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
The Hans van Manen Festival was staged by The Dutch National Ballet to celebrate the work of choreographer Hans van Manen for his 75th birthday. International guest artists from companies such as the Kirov Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Theater, joined Dutch National Ballet to perform some of van Manen's most celebrated ballets.
This gala event includes stunning performances from internationally renowned ballerinas Uliana Lopatkina, Lucia Lacarra and the brightest stars of Dutch dance including Larissa Lezhnina and Igone de Jongh of Dutch National Ballet and the young talent of Nederlands Dans Theater. Recorded at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, with behind the scenes footage and interviews.
Choreography by Hans van Manen
ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER
Performed by Dutch National Ballet: Natalia Hoffmann, Larissa Lezhnina, Tamás Nagy, Anna Tsygankova, Jozef Varga, Artem Yachmennikov
Music by Beethoven
SIMPLE THINGS
Performed by Nederlands Dans Theater II :Celia Amade, Nina Botkay, Javier Monzon, Roger van Der Poel
Music by Guy Klusevsek and Alan Bern, Josef Haydn and Peteris Vasks
TROIS GNOSSIENNES
Performed by the Kirov Ballet: Uliana Lopatkina, Ivan Kozlov,.Music by Erik Satie
5 TANGOS
Performed by Bayerisches Staatsballett: Lucia Lacarra, Alen Bottaini
Music by Astor Piazzolla; Performed live by Carel Kraayenhof y su Sexteto Canyengue
*BONUS*
Interviews: Hans Van Manen and eminent performers
TWILIGHT
Performed by Dutch National Ballet: Igone de Jongh, Alexander Zhembrovskyy. Music by John Cage
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I've always had an interest in ballet so when I saw that this recording was available and then read the positive review by David Thierry, I decided to get this DVD. This turned out to be a case of 'one man's treasure is another...
This performance was recorded in Sept 2007 in the Netherlands; it was dedicated as a tribute to fete choreographer van Manen's 75th birthday, by dancing some of his 'most celebrated ballets'.
There were things I liked and disliked about this DVD...let ... Read More
Rating:  -
Can there ever be enough? We start with a stately ensemble of six dancing to Beethoven's 19 minute adagio from the Hammerklavier sonata. The second piece , Simple Things, is a lot more fun with two male dancers competing with each other to some very lively accordian music before the two females enter for some spectacular pas de deux to a Haydn adagio, then finish with the men repeating the opening. The audience goes wild and the dancers have many curtain calls. The first two pieces are danced by the Netherlands ... Read More
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