21 mei 2014

Rodin




Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg's "Rodin".

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Eifman’s new ballet Rodin explores the textured genius of sculptor Auguste Rodin and his tortured love/hate relationship with Camille Claudel, his muse/mistress and fellow-sculptor. (Their mix of rivalry and romance immediately recalls Zelda versus F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s.) Employing a supple score by French composers of the period (Saint-Saens, Massenet and Ravel), this two-hour tour-d’art focuses on Oleg Gabyshev’s tall and elegant Rodin, lean and lovely Lyubov Andreyeva as too-fragile Camille, and Nina Zmievets as Rodin’s dogged and damaged wife Rose Beuret.

The action opens with Camille in the mental asylum where she spent 30 years before dying forgotten in 1943. Joined by other mad ladies who abuse her, she dances out her insanity (perhaps the easiest thing to depict in ballet, which is why it’s such a favorite subject). Flashbacks to happier times become the main story: We see Camille’s raucous arrival in Rodin’s busy studio as a model who will herself turn marble into life. She is literally on a pedestal but, a proto-feminist in mind as well as heart, she will soon carve on her own. Remarkably, the dancer does as much to her body – and quicker than chisel and mallet could permit.
...." (bron: Stace and Cinema, foto's: Nikolay Krusser)




(bron: DanceTabs, foto's: Souheil Michael Khoury)


(bron: Eifman Ballet)

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