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kobvindex_ZLB14733452
Format:
2 DVD-Video (30 /60/ 40 Min.)
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1 Beiheft (6 S.)
Uniform Title:
Stal'noj skok
Content:
In April 2005 Princeton University will stage Prokofiev's infamous "Soviet" ballet, Le Pas d'Acier, originally conceived in 1925. This project is directed by Professor Simon Morrison, a musicologist specializing in Russian music and ballet. The ballet will be developed from the research of ballet/theatre historian Lesley-Anne Sayers, and staged by internationally renowned reconstructors Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. Hodson will develop new, source based choreography to take the ballet back to its original conception and its roots in the Soviet theatre, dance and revolutionary context of the 1920s. This project is funded by Princeton University, a leading center of music and research, and will be developed with students from their advanced dance program. This production will use an unpublished scenario co-written by Soviet designer Georgi Yakoulov and Serge Prokofiev in 1925. The original ideas for the staging and narrative content were adapted for the ballet's premiere by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1927. This project aims to present the ballet as collaboratively conceived in 1925. It is therefore the first ever staging of the music alongside the action it was written for. Le Pas d'Acier is a series of scenes in two acts. The first part is set in Russia during the period of famine, the second in a factory. Through the interaction of music, movement and design, the ballet explores the theme of social transition and transformation, revolutionary ideals of empowerment through industrialisation 'construction' and the Machine. The driving force behind the ballet's original conception was its designer, Georgi Yakoulov, a leading member of the Soviet avant garde. Prior to Prokofiev's first return visit to Russia in 1927, and his eventual permanent return in 1936, Yakoulov brought a re-connection to artistic developments in Moscow, to the ideals of "construction" and the machine, and to the Russian approaches to staging associated with Alexander Tairov and Vsvold Meyerhold. Le Pas d'Acier was Diaghilev's most radical interaction with Constructivism, and is the only known ballet to have combined a Soviet revolutionary theme with a Constructivist staging. But the evidence suggests that the original staging could not resolve the politically charged dilemmas of the subject matter, and suffered from mixed sources of inspiration and realisation (Soviet theatre / Ballets Russes). This project aims to re-connect the ballet to its original sources in movement-based Soviet revolutionary theatre and the influence of film in the 1920s. (www.pasdacier.co.uk)
Content:
The 2-DVD set includes a complete performance of the ballet [30 Min.], a documentary about its rediscovery [60 Min.], a discussion of Prokofiev's ballet collaborations [includes a performance of Prokofiev's Musical Interlude, composed originally for quintet and here orchestrated by Samuel Becker] [20 Min.], notes on re-sourcing the choreography [20 Min.]... In addition, as documents readable by computer there is a bibliography, an essay by Professor Sean Sayers on the philosophical background to the ballet, and a biography of Yakoulov. [DVD-ROM] (Dance Books)
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Interlude ; Rediscovering Le Pas d'Acier 1925 ; Prokofiev's Ballet Collaborations of the 1920s ; Re-sourcing [Resourcing] the Choreography.
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Aufführung: Princeton University, April 2005. Uraufführung Paris, 1927.
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Engl.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Prokofʹev, Sergej Sergeevič 〈1891-1953〉. Stal'noj skok
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Ballett
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Rekonstruktion
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DVD-Video
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Prokofʹev, Sergej Sergeevič
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Ballett
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Geschichte 1920-1930
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DVD-Video
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Prokofʹev, Sergej Sergeevič 〈1891-1953〉. Stal'noj skok
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Jakulov, Georgij
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Bühnenbild
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Jakulov, Georgij
Author information:
Prokofʹev, Sergej Sergeevič
Author information:
Morrison, Simon Alexander
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