Rameau : Les Indes Galantes [DVD]
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SKU: NX.BAC138

By Ana Quintans, Anna Prohaska, Cyril Auvity, Dancers of Eastman, Elsa Benoit, Francois Lis, Goran Juric, Ivor Bolton, Lisette Oropesa, Munchner Festpielorchester, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Tareq Nazmi. By Jean-Philippe Rameau. Classical. DVD. Bel Air Classiques #BAC138. Published by Bel Air Classiques (NX.BAC138).

When the European youth chooses War above Love, Cupid decides to seek out new followers on other continents. The opera thus recounts the way people love, hate, envy or trust overseas, all the while asking its western audience a burning question: how do we love right? In ""Dreams of Babel"", a documentary about the dance prodigy Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui released on DVD by Bel Air Classiques in 2010, the choreographer explained how shifting identities, multiculturalism, and his own plural heritage as the son of an immigrant, had shaped his dramaturgy and artistic inspiration. Thus, to take on the stage direction for ""Les Indes Galantes"", whose multiple plots take place in a fantasized exotic << elsewhere >> supposed to mirror the European society, meant for Cherkaoui bringing the tension between identity and alterity to a whole new level. And the choreographer pushes his reflection much farther than mere baroque specular aesthetics: his ""Indes Galante""s raise the sensible issues of population movements, fragmented and ever-changing territories and borders, but also the refugee crisis that has shaken Europe to its very core... For this new production at the Prinzregenten Theater, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui brought his own dance ensemble, the Eastman company, as well as a brilliant vocal cast, among which Anna Prohaska, Francois Lis or Lisette Oropesa. Ivor Bolton conducts a Munchner Festspielorchester at the top of its game.