Blackbird
2011 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Kylián, Jiří (Czech Republic)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Blackbird
2011 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Kylián, Jiří (Czech Republic)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Blackbird
The pas de deux in “Blackbird” is an extract from the play of the same name, created in 2001 by the Nederland Dans Theater.
This duo explores the vulnerability of the human body, the sensuality of dancing bodies, without artifice, swept away with traditional Georgian chants.
Updating: September 2011
Kylián, Jiří
The world-renowned choreographer Jiří Kylián (Czechoslovakia, 1947) has been artistic director and house choreographer for of Nederlands Dans Theater for more than thirty years. Throughout his career Kylián created 75 choreographies for NDT. The piece "Mémoires d’Oubliettes" marked the end of his work for NDT in 2009. Since then his creative focus has shifted to more small scale projects. Kylián created various other pieces for companies worldwide such as the Stuttgart Ballet, the Paris Opéra, the Munich Bayerisches Staatsballett and the Tokyo Ballet. Kylián received many prestigious, international awards and honours.
Jiří Kylián started his dance career at the age of nine, at the School of the National Ballet in Prague. In 1962 he was accepted as a student at the Prague Conservatory. He left Prague in 1967 when he received a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School in London. Then he left for the Stuttgart Ballet led by John Cranko, where he made his debut as a choreographer with Paradox for the Noverre Gesellschaft. After having created three ballets for NDT ("Viewers", "Stoolgame" and "La Cathédrale Engloutie"), he became the company’s artistic director in 1975 together with Hans Knill. During the 1978 Charleston Festival in the United States Kylián put NDT on the international map with Sinfonietta (Leoš Janácek). That year he and Carel Birnie founded NDT 2, which was – and is – meant to offer young dancers the opportunity to develop their skills and talents. In 1991 he initiated NDT 3; a company that created opportunities for ‘older’ dancers. NDT stood out as the first company worldwide that showed the three dimensions of a dancer´s life. After an extraordinary record of service Kylián handed over the artistic leadership in 1999, but remained associated to the dance company as house choreographer until 2009.
Source: Nederlands Dance Theater 's website
More information: ndt.nl/en/home.html
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Blackbird
Choreography : Jirí Kylián
Interpretation : Madeline Wong, Armando Gonzalez
Additionnal music : musique traditionnelle géorgienne
Lights : Jirí Kylián, Kees Tjebbes
Costumes : Jirí Kylián, Joke Visser
Settings : Jirí Kylián, Kees Tjebbes
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