Here's the Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet performing "HammerKlavier", based on excerpts from the late Piano Sonatas 29, 30 and 32:
Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet "HammerKlavier" Beethoven (excerpts)
Here's the same ballet company doing a performance using the Grosse Fugue op 133 (there's a bit of odd rehearsal footage with electronic music as well):
Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet & Beethoven Luckman Theater
(Another clip with some footage of ballet with the Op.130 "Cavatina" and Op.132 "Heiliger Dankgesang" can be seen HERE. )
The Michael Shannon Ballet here presents a kind of "dysfunctional domestic drama" to the adagio of the "Ghost" Piano Trio (it takes about a minute before B. kicks in):
Been There Done That: Michael Shannon Ballet: What Happened to Us: Beethoven: Configuration Dance
Finally here's Uwe Scholz and the Stuttgart Ballet performing a ballet to the entire 7th Symphony. I think I like the Allegretto the best (the 2nd part). Richard Wagner famously referred to this symphony as the "Apotheosis of the Dance" (I think specifically the 4th movement) and even did a private solo dance performance with Liszt on piano...
Choreography: Uwe Scholz
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A Major
Costumes and stage design: Uwe Scholz based on "Beta Kappa" of Morris Louis
Lighting setup: Uwe Scholz, Dieter Billino
World premiere: April 26, 1991, Stuttgart Ballet
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Ok---but where is the actual "Prometheus" ballet?? That's the problem---nobody seems interested in choreographing the ONE ballet work B wrote! Is the heroic theme too "old-fashioned" for today's jaded tastes? I wonder how he would feel about such deep music as the Heiliger Dankgesang or the Cavatina turned into dance? Just some thoughts....
ReplyDeleteI would fly to Europe if someone did a production of the Prometheus ballet! Unless of course they do it in some modern style with people in space suits and laser beams...it should be as authentic as possible. I posted about the scenario here:
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but it's pretty vague...
Wow, Ed---I feel EXACTLY the same as you about this. I have yet to see Fidelio, you know. I was going to come to NY and see it at the Met a few years ago when they did it---thank goodness my buddy Susan Kagan stopped me. She said it was one of those "minimalist" modern productions and that I would hate it. thankyou for posting that link to your other blog post about it---I had missed that one, of course. I'll look at it now.
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