Choreographer Jiri Kylian and his performances are a whole layer of world dance culture. His productions are the pride of the main ballet stages of the world; A-list celebrities fight for the right to performance in them. From the Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT), where Kilian's most famous works were created, not only a whole generation of wonderful artists grew up, but also a whole cohort of now famous choreographers, including Nacho Duato, Paul Lightfoot, Sol Leon, Johan Inger, Jorma Elo.
What is so special about Kilian's dancing? Beginning his career as a dancer in the classical (or neoclassical) paradigm, serving for seven years at the John Cranko Theatre in Stuttgart, Kylian created his own style. Working with the human body as a perfect instrument, brilliantly constructed compositions, emphasized minimalism, amazing musicality, emotions that are expressed primarily through dance, light irony not slipping into pathos, and, of course, his unique dance vocabulary - all this adds up to a style that I want to imitate, but it’s impossible to repeat (although many modern choreographers try). A style similar to painting. Pictures that cannot always be understood immediately, but which are endlessly interesting to look at. Moreover, Kylian is very different. Serious and funny, tragic and ironic, at the intersection of reality and fantasy and sensual.
The TheatreHD special project contains his works from different years, and the “Favourites” allow you to try to put together a puzzle called “Jiri Kylian”, look at it and fall in love.
What is so special about Kilian's dancing? Beginning his career as a dancer in the classical (or neoclassical) paradigm, serving for seven years at the John Cranko Theatre in Stuttgart, Kylian created his own style. Working with the human body as a perfect instrument, brilliantly constructed compositions, emphasized minimalism, amazing musicality, emotions that are expressed primarily through dance, light irony not slipping into pathos, and, of course, his unique dance vocabulary - all this adds up to a style that I want to imitate, but it’s impossible to repeat (although many modern choreographers try). A style similar to painting. Pictures that cannot always be understood immediately, but which are endlessly interesting to look at. Moreover, Kylian is very different. Serious and funny, tragic and ironic, at the intersection of reality and fantasy and sensual.
The TheatreHD special project contains his works from different years, and the “Favourites” allow you to try to put together a puzzle called “Jiri Kylian”, look at it and fall in love.
Show & Tell
Public Talk: Are humor and satire appropriate in ballet?
Bolshoi Theater soloist Anastasia Vinokur and journalist Alexandra Zager at the premiere of the evening of Jiri Kylian’s ballets “Ironic Dances” at the Illusion cinema talked about whether it is difficult to joke in dance. Anastasia also shared stories from her creative life, secret dreams and plans.
TheatreHD Lectures: L'enfant et les sortilèges
The story of a musical fairy tale that took 10 years to be born and 60 years to find its choreographer. Maya Farafonova, curator of dance programs at TheatreHD about the tragic and funny details of how the fairy tale was going to become a ballet, then transformed into an opera and what it became in the end, as well as about Ravel, Colette and other fickle stars of the Belle Epoque.
TheatreHD Lectures: Kaguyahime
Ballet critic, historian and researcher Tata Boeva told how the Asian motif arose in the work of Jiri Kylian and how the choreographer interpreted it, how one of the few full-length plot ballets of this author differs from his well-known plotless one-acts, and how it is similar to them, and how to convey Japanese legend in the language of dance.
Рецензии и отзывы
Kommersant Review
The ballet “Kaguya, the Moon Princess” by Jiri Kylian, one of the most sought-after choreographers, is staged extremely rarely by world companies. The TheatreHD project presented this rarity to Moscow in all its glory...
A Tale of Protest
The TheatreHD project is showing in cinemas the opera-ballet “L' enfant et les sortilèges” by Maurice Ravel, directed by Jiri Kylian. An action-packed performance, atypical for a choreographer, composed in 1984 and transferred to the screen in 1986, has only now reached Moscow.
