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Hoppla! (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
52 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Written By:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Actors:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Synopsis:

In the film Hoppla! made by Wolfgang Kolb, two choreographies by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker are brought together and performed to the music of the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok: Microkosmos, seven short works for two pianos and Quatuor nr. 4, Bartoks fourth string quartet. The reading room of the University of Ghent library, designed by the famous architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957), served as location. During filming the music was performed live by the pianists Walter Hus and Stefan Poelmans on the one hand and by the Netherlands Mondriaan Quartet on the other. Mikrokosmos is a pas de deux: for the first time a male dancer enters Anne Teresa de Keersmaekers universe. Four girls/women dancers perform to the string quartet. In Van de Veldes open space lit by large windows the black clothing of the dancers sharply outlines their movements. One senses an immense complicity between the musicians and the dancers: the exhilaration of playing music together and dancing simultaneously is as it were the artistic motor of this project. In Hoppla!, Bartoks dansant music, De Keersmaekers inventive choreography, Van de Veldes austere space, and Wolfgang Kolbs dynamic editing are equally merged into one enormous convincing composition: therefore Hoppla! can be rightfully considered to be one of the milestones of the, still in its infancy, video-dance genre.

Film by Wolfgang Kolb based on two choreographies by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker performed to the music of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok: 'Microkosmos', seven short works for two pianos, and 'Quatuor No.4', Bartok's fourth string quartet.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 April, 2015.