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"Car Men" Choreographer Jiri Kylian and director Boris Paval Conen made the film on location at a coal mine in the Czech Republic, where Kylian choreographed the piece for four dancers on the spot. The Dutch composer Han Otten arranged Bizet's original score and also integrated additional muic specially composed for the film. The trial of strength between the eternal temptress Carmen, the infatuated Don Jose, the womaniser Escamillo and the kind-hearted Samaritan Micaela climaxes in a lively race in cars made from abondoned scrap. Produktionsjahr: 2006 "La Cathedrale Engloutie" Claude Debussy'S Prelude No. 10 "La Cathedrale engloutie", first performed in Paris in 1910, is based on the ancient Breton legend of the submerged cathedral of the village of Ys. When Kylian chose this music in 1975 for his choreography, he reduced the legend to its core message in order to represent the eternal conflict seething inside the human soul that comes about from selfimposed laws and the temptation or obligation to break them. Produktionsjahr: 1975 "Silent Cries" In an exceptionally moving solo by Sabine Kupferberg - half obscured and seemingly trapped behind a dirt-smeared pane of glasse - Kylian and the dancer together went in search of the inner state in their piece "Silent Cries", first performed at NDT in 1986. Characteristically, Kylian here uses an orchestral work by Debussy dominated by the sounds of flutes and harp, which had by 1912 already ignited intense interest in the dance world as a result of the furore caused by Vaslav Nijinsky's original choreography entitled "L'Après-midi d'un faune".
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