Song of the Earth in rehearsal (The Royal Ballet)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Laura Morera, Nehemiah Kish and Edward Watson rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth with Monica Mason and Grant Coyle. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/...
Kenneth MacMillan first heard Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in 1958. He immediately fell in love with Mahler's elegiac masterpiece and in 1959 asked if he could use the piece in a new commission for The Royal Ballet. But the ROH Board refused, concerned that such a major musical work was not suitable accompaniment for ballet. It wasn't until 1965 that MacMillan was able to create his Song of the Earth, for Stuttgart Ballet on the invitation of his friend John Cranko. The ballet was instantly acclaimed, recognized as MacMillan's arrival into full maturity as a choreographer. The Royal Ballet took the piece into their repertory only six months after its Stuttgart premiere.
MacMillan introduced a narrative thread to the piece's six movements, drawing on imagery from Hans Bethge's free translation of the six T'ang-dynasty poems that Mahler used. Marcia Haydée created the role of the woman, a figure of loneliness isolated from the movements of the corps de ballet around her. The man was created by Ray Barra, and the Messenger of Death by Egon Madsen, then only 23 years old. In MacMillan's hands Death becomes not a figure of evil but a gentle, ever-present companion. Earthbound, non-classical movements morph seamlessly into modernist curves in a work of breathtaking beauty and power.
Monica Mason is amazing! Watching her coach the beautiful Laura is inspiring!!!
This was just beautiful. Would love to see more of Nehemiah Kish in these videos.
It's wonderful to get to watch at least a piece of this ballet, which I have always wanted to get to know. Very interesting.
Exquisite. What a treat to see MacMillan's beautiful choreography performed by such luminous dancers at the peak of their artistry.
Monica Mason moves beautifully.
Interesting to see how much of it she still has in her body.....the way dancers remember these steps. Amazing.
Watch Royal Ballet Principals Laura Morera, Nehemiah Kish and Edward Watson rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth with Monica Mason and notator Grant Coyle.
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Very instructive, thank you
Such a lovely piece. I would love to dance a piece like this.
This is such soul-filling music without dance, I was hesitant to watch. What can one add to the ineffable? If it can be successfully done, Kenneth MacMillan is the one to have done it. You lucky Brits that see this piece, please post your impressions.
Very beautiful!!
Feel her in with dancer ricci❤ humbly of course
Me encanta Laura!
Great to see
it must be the most amazing feeling to just jump into the arms of two gorgeous men like that... knowing they will catch you ... please let me be a ballerina in my next life !
You can NEVER go wrong with Mahler.
pretty !!
Nice, just would it not be better in the sake of part form 1:10 to 1:44 if Ed and Nehemiah were in reverse? I mean, that had to be really struggle for Ed to do the from behind poses, when Nehemiah is considerable taller than him and to me it actually looked a bit awkward.
That is exactly what I thought as well✌
Does anybody know if it is too hard to find the score for the choreography of this?
i'm really into that nehemiah's new hair cut
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I think Nehemiah Kish and Edward Watson would make a very handsome couple.
Pour moi, l’expressivité du danseur est toute aussi sacrée que l’écriture.
Il faut laisser au danseur sa liberté expressive.
Sinon, le résultat n’a aucun sens... pour le public.
De toute façon, l’œuvre est incarnée. Le corps est le filtre sensible.
Et chaque danseur offre sa couleur avec ce qu’il est.
Donc:
La dévotion au chorégraphe a des limites... je comprends la répétition mais revendique le droit du danseur de s’exprimer avec ce qu’il est.
Mon point de vue... si le chorégraphe interfère trop, cela me gêne. Je n’aime pas cela du tout, ...un danseur est fait pour exprimer sa liberté joyeuse d’être au monde. Avec son corps, il se doit de prendre tout l’espace dont il a besoin. Lui. D’abord. Point.
L’écriture n’est pour lui qu’un moyen pas une limite. Sur scène, c’est lui, l’artiste. Et l’œuvre n’appartient plus du tout à son auteur.
The pianist looks like Richter...
Kinda maybe called blind dancer