Godfrey Reggio's 1982 cult film, with music written by Philip Glass, is a wordless poem depicting modern man's loss of balance with images of unique power.Now Dóra Barta has conceived for the Erkel's stage her own personalised "alienation mythology" about the tragedy of humanity's since then even more destructively wasteful treatment of nature through another silent visual language: that of dance, in a production that is likewise set to Glass's repetitive music. The Hungarian title, which paraphrases Hamlet's apocalyptic words "time is out of joint", harkens back somewhat to the Shakespeare theme for the 2015/16 season.
The choreographer Béla Földi has found similarly exciting material in Ray Bradbury's science fiction work The Martian Chronicles, with the magical/mystical journey accompanied by music that the ensemble Solaris had written for Bradbury's stories thirty years ago and which has been a favourite of discerning music lovers ever since.
Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass
© 1982 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.
The Martian Chronicles is performed with the permission of Ray Bradbury Literary Works LLC.
© 1959, renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles is available in Hungarian language from Agave Könyvek and in English language editions from Harper Voyager, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster.
Planet in Turmoil
One act dance piece
General cast:
Performed by: Alexandra Kozmér / Polen Gezmis Obengül / Bianka Rotter / Miklós Dávid Kerényi / József Medvecz / Ryosuke Morimoto / István Kohári / Ricardo Vila M. / Tamás Csizmadia / Dalma Domán
Credits:
Choreographer, visual designer: Dóra Barta
Composer: Philip Glass
Lighting designer: Zoltán Katonka
Animation designer: Péter Bárány
Dramaturg: Tamás Szabó
Ballet master: Edit Rujsz
Premiere: April 19, 2016
The Martian Chronicles
Stories in one part
General cast:
Performed by: Adrienn Pap / Levente Bajári / Roland Liebich / Krisztina Baumgartner / Mary Katakura / Tamás Kiss / Zita Macskin / Alexandra Sághy / Dzsenifer Vattai / Valentin Brunner / Alekseij Canepa
Credits:
Choreographer: Béla Földi
Music by: Solaris
Set designer: Tamás Sáfárik
Costume designer: Dalma Závodszky
Projected scenery: Ready By Wednesday
Dramaturg: Anna Vécsei
Ballet master: Edit Marosi
Premiere: April 19, 2016
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