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L'Histoire Du Soldat (Various Artists)
L'Histoire Du Soldat (Various Artists)
Stars: The Nederlands Dans Theater, David PorcelijnSummary: With choreography by Jiri Kylian, this is a low budget piece of theatre conceived by Stravinsky and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz in such a way that it could be toured around Switzerland on the back of a lorry.
This Stravinsky ballet, performed by the Nederlands Dans Theater, relates the tale of one soldier's deal with the devil.
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In Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, the hero believes he has cheated the devil and lives to regret his cleverness. The aftermath of the First World War had left the composer convinced of an aesthetic of austerity, so here he replaces his huge pre-war scores with the Ballet Russes with a few dancers, a few instruments and narrators. The score, brilliantly played, includes a lot of genre dances--a tango, a waltz, a ragtime--as well as fragmentary jagged marches and love scenes that drift with deliberate grace into the further reaches of tonality. Kylian's choreography involves a rather larger cast than most--many of the dance numbers are performed as a "divertissement" for the soldier and his princess--and some slightly corny staging: at the end, dragged off to Hell, the soldier disappears into a red dry-ice mist. None the less, this version is superbly danced, with a real sense of menace, moments of fairytale beauty and passionately cynical flippantness. The DVD has menus and subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish, and contains trailers for other ArtHaus releases. --Roz Kaveney
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 Full Frame |
| Region: | Region 2 |
| Special Features: | Scene Access, Interactive Menus - 1. English, 2. French, 3. Spanish, 4. German |
| Subtitles: | English, German |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Release Date: | December 4, 2000 |
| Runtime: | 51 minutes |
| Certification: | Exempt. |
| Catalogue Number: | 100 132 |
| Keywords: | Music, Ballet, Tale, Dance, Soldat, Stravinsky, Igor, Du, Soldier's, L'histoire |
| Genre: | Music/Performing Arts |
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