ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ

Songe De Médée & MC 14/22

 

Le Songe de Médée

Médée: Marie-Agnès Gillot

Créüse, fille de Créon: Eleonora Abbagnato

Jason: Wilfried Romoli

Les Enfants: Constance Nicolas & Carl Van Gotdsenhoven

 

Ensemble Court-Circuit

Musical Director: Pierre-André Valade

Music by: Mauro Lanza

 

MC 14/22 ceci est mon corps

Soundscapes by: Tedd Zahmal

Guest dancer/singer: Sylvain Groud

Opéra national de Paris Ballet

 

Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj

Stage Director: Denis Caïozzi

 

Bonus material: Interviews with Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Lanza and Brigitte Lefèvre, director of Ballet de L’Opéra

 

This double bill from one of the world’s leading choreographers is a world premiere on DVD

 

Recorded live at the Paris Opera Ballet in November 2004

 

This double bill from one of the world’s leading choreographers offers two of his major works, danced by the Ballet de l’opéra de Paris. The dreamlike Songe de Médée, with music by Mauro Lanza and freely based on the Greek myth of Medea, explores a woman’s soul, portraying her, paradoxically, as a tender loving mother and a tormented victim who sacrifices everything, including her children, for love. MC 14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) is a meeting of the spiritual and the carnal, drawing on St Mark’s version of The Last Supper in the Bible: ‘Take, eat: this is my body’. Created for twelve male dancers, Preljocaj’s ‘Apostles of Movement’, and with soundscapes by Tedd Zahmal, this powerfully sensual and passionate work is a hymn to the male body, stripped down to its deepest reality, juxtaposing the glorification of strength and the condemnation of force.

 

‘With Angelin Preljocaj’s work, precision is such that the outline of the bodies, inscribed on our retina, marks both the memory of and trajectory made by each gesture. A palpable memory, a memory of a gesture divided into an almost visible infinity of micro-intervals. There is no doubt that Angelin Preljocaj is one of those people who dictate an essential part of our choreographic heritage. He is unquestionably one of those artists who, mirroring the intentions of Arthur, asks the questions that need asking, and most notably the ones linked to the urgencies of life.’ montpellierdance.com

 

Running time 155 mins

Region Code All regions Picture format 16:9 Anamorphic

Sound format Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround / Dolby Digital Stereo

Menu languages EN Subtitles EN/FR/DE/ES/IT

Dimensions (mm) W135 H190 D15

 

BBC Opus Arte DVD OA0981D