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PoorhouseINTERNATIONAL The Financial Times at MONUMENTVALLEY JOHN FORD John Wayne onhorseback!

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JOHN FORD at MONUMENT VALLEY

Who else could talk with starting with Stage Coach and ending Clara and Julia Kuperberg round off with Cheyenne Autumn. Peter Cowie, the their documentary with telling shots of authority about the record author of John Ford and the American Monument Valley and clips from most of Oscar winning director West, explains what makes Ford’s films so John Ford’s films which are touched on in unique: authenticity. And this authenticity is this unique profile. John Ford but one of his largely due to proper preparation of the favourite actors, John actors, the so called ‘Ford stock company’ directed by Wayne. And he does so in of John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Clara & Julia Kuperberg Stewart, Harry Carrey Jr., John Carradine, this documentary mainly produced by Wichita Films Ward Bond, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, running time: 55' shot in HD on horseback and at Joanne Dru … and the study of the painters Frederick Remington and Charles Monument Valley! M. Russell who perfectly captured the spirit of the ‘wild west’. The careful framing Ford is considered to be the grand and the positioning of the skyline are part old master of the American cinema, the of John Ford’s trademark. heart beat of the Western myth and While John Wayne, James Steward and an inspiration for generations of film Henry Fonda reveal personal memories directors from Hitchcock and Orson about the rather secretive persona of the Welles to Spielberg and Scorsese. Welles director, talks about even admitted to have studied Stage The Searchers, a film of Ford’s that inspired Coach frame by frame before shooting him so much. Citizen Cane. Clara and Julia Kuperberg’s documentary tells the story of how the trader Harvey Golding set up his shop at Monument Valley to do business with the Navajos who settled there. One day he heard that United Artists looked for a suitable location in Arizona where John Ford was to shoot a Western. Golding went to Hollywood and convinced the studio that Monument Valley was the right place. John Ford subsequently shot eight of his most famous films at the valley, PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30 les films d’ici& alt-o productions3 THE ART OF BEiNG ARRABAL

Fernando Arrabal is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet who settled in France leaving behind him Franco’s Spain. He describes himself as “desterrado” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled”. The New York Times theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal “the last survivor among the ´Three EDOUARD MANET Avatars of Modernism’”. A friend of Andy Warhol as well as Tristan Tzara, Arrabal A Disquieting Strangeness spent three years as a member of André Breton’s surrealist group. Deeply political and rocambolesque, both revolutionary The documentary maker Hopi Lebel, directed by Hopi Lebel who made a very special film on Miró and bohemian, he has made the world for us years ago, is taking a fresh look at produced by Les Films d’Ici & his theatre with Kafka’s lucidity and one of the greatest painters of the 19th Le Musée d’Orsay Jarry’s humour. Director Pierre Alexis century, who was at best misunderstood running time: 52' shot in HD de Potestad takes him in this revealing but at the same time defended by documentary to the places which most some of France’s most famous writers: mattered to Arrabal and inspired him Baudelaire, Zola and Mallarmé. Manet like and gives us a taste of the poet´s power Baudelaire had contracted Syphilis and of conviction. And who would be better mustered all his energy at the age of 47, suited to talk about Arrabal than Arrabal between two hospital stays, to mount himself? an exhibition which would have put him back right into the centre of modernity, directed by Bernard Léonard at the cutting edge of painting of his time. & Pierre Alexis de Potestad We experience a virtual hanging of his produced by Alt-o Productions pictures and learn from art historians running time: 60' Stéphane Guégan, Nancy Locke and Alain Corbin how the most famous of them shot in DigiBeta 16:9 reflect decisive moments of the painter’s life and how he contributed with his art to change the perception of society. In this context Le déjeuner sur l’herbe, Olympia and Le bar aux Folies-Bergères take on complex meanings which blend reality and fiction with personal experience, ending with contemporary subjects in the style of the masters. Yes, Manet was a strange personality with a very disquieting message. PoorhouseApril - September 2013 international 4 brent huffman

The BUDDHAS of AYNAL

‘The Buddhas of Aynak’ is Philippe Marquis, director and lead been advanced, such as lack of firewood archaeologist of DAFA (Délégation or water or the technical problems the story of a race against Archéologique Francaise en Afghanistan, caused by in depth mining. time - an effort to preserve foundet 1922 by Alfred Foucher) has A recently discovered stele, identified been tirelessly working at the Buddhist by Gérard Fussman as representing Prince some of the world’s most site in the windswept moonscape of Mes Siddharta, has caused a sensation and precious Buddhist relics Aynak for years. He has been leading the forces historians to rethink how Buddhism at an archaeological effort to preserve artifacts on the site, has spread in the region. move small pieces to the Kabul museum, The Buddhas of Aynak will be a feature- site in Afghanistan and unearth undiscovered relics still length documentary in the same vein that is threatened by buried in the sands of Logar province. He as Werner Herzog´s Cave of Forgotten has been the dominant voice exposing Dreams in its ability to capture the awe- Taliban attacks and the the Chinese proposed destruction of inspiring beauty and cultural significance encroachment of a massive the site to the international community of artifacts and examine the inspirational Chinese copper mine and has been training a team of Afghan people who are preserving these relics for archaeologists to work full-time on site. future generations. The documentary will that will destroy forever The Chinese mine will destroy whatever is follow Philippe Marquis’ struggle to save these ancient and sacred not saved, when it will begin open-pit style this ancient Buddhist site. copper mining later this decade. The film will also examine the process artifacts. This dramatic Mes Aynak, a desert region located of excavating in such a tumultuous area story will be told by 90 minutes southwest of Kabul, is an prone to extreme Taliban violence. To filmmakers given unique archaeological treasure trove of ancient make matters worse, archeologists must Buddhist artifacts. It was at this site work with inadequate funding and crude access to all the parties that a Buddhist monastery complex tools in extreme heat and cold at a site involved. Several shoots with extensive wall frescoes, devotional which is not accessible during the winter temples known as stupas and hundreds when the adjacent river bed cannot have been organized and of Buddha statues was built and inhabited be driven in. The Buddhas of Aynak will the finished film will be between 300 and 800 A.D. Copper feature a well-rounded cast of supporting ready by this summer. mining and trade provided a certain characters including Afghan archaeologists, wealth for an apparently mixed society of Buddhist scholars, Afghan politicians and produced & directed by Brent monks and civilians. Why this complex has citizens in support of Chinese investment, Huffman running time: 52' or been abandoned in an orderly way and U.S. military strategists and Chinese MCC was forgotten for more than a thousand workers living and working in Afghanistan. 90’shot in HD years is not yet clear. Various theories have PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30 wichita films 5

STEVE SHAPIRO - The Loving Lens

Brooklyn born Steve Schapiro the 70s Schapiro shifted his attention to retrospective in Rostock, Germany. discovered photography at the age of 9 film and produced advertising material, “If you’re on peoples’ wavelength and care at a summer camp. He spent decades posters and publicity stills for films as about them”, says Schapiro, “they are very prowling the streets of his native New varied as Godfather, The Way We Were, responsive.” How responsive you will York City trying to emulate Henry Cartier , Midnight Cowboy, Rambo, Risky see when Schapiro takes you through Bresson whom he greatly admired. He Business and Billy Madison. He also was his most important work which will be later studied with W. Eugene Smith, responsible for record covers starring juxtaposed by Clara and Julia Kuperberg pioneer of the photo essay. Smith not only Barbary Streisand and David Bowie. with archive footage of the events, taught him the technical skills but also Covering the filming ofMidnight Cowboy location filming and clips from the films informed his personal outlook and world- Schapiro made friends with Dustin Schapiro took pictures for. view. From 1961 Schapiro worked as a Hoffman and when it came to this freelance photo-journalist and contributed portrait Dustin was of course prepared to to major magazines. He made a name for talk, more so, to interview Schapiro about himself with photo essays including the his career. And Jodie Foster also agreed working conditions of migrant workers to make an appearance as well as Michael in Arkansas, the Apollo Theatre and drug Mann. addicts in East Harlem. He says: “The In 2007 he published Schapiro’s Heroes narcotic addicts in East Harlem accepted which offers intimate profiles of ten iconic me because they trusted me. Everyone likes figures: Muhammad Ali, Andy Warhol, to be photographed but they are terrified Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, that you don´t make them look good. But Ray Charles, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, I gained their trust that I would not hurt , Samuel Beckett, them.” “Gaining their trust” has been the Barbara Streisand and Truman Capote. secret of Schapiro all along, in particular Taschen´s recent Family when he covered stories relating to the Album marks the beginning of a Civil Rights Movement, the assassination collaboration with this famous publishing of Martin Luther King and the presidential house and Benedikt Taschen is certainly campaign of Robert Kennedy. appearing in Clara and Julia Kuperberg’s As picture magazines like LIFE folded in film. directed by Schapiro´s photographs have been seen in museums and galleries world- Clara & Julia Kuperberg wide. Exhibitions in Stockholm, Moscow produced by Wichita Films and Berlin made him even better known running time: 52' shot in HD and as we go to print he has another big PoorhouseApril - September 2013 international 6 opus arte CiNDERELLA The production is a The Dutch National triumph of storytelling Ballet has hit bull’s eye and stage design firmly with the new Cinderella by Christopher in touch with the 21st Wheeldon. De Telegraaf century. Financial Times

from the Dutch National Ballet

Christopher Wheeldon began his Misericordes at the Bolshoi. The making journey. See for yourself how the fabulous training at the age of 8 and attended the of this ballet was covered by the Ballet Dutch National Ballet dancers bring Royal Ballet School between the ages Boyz in Strictly Bolshoi which won them across his ideas. of 11 and 18. He joined the Royal Ballet an Emmy. In 2010 Christopher Wheeldon in 1991 and won the Gold Medal at took on his first classic and restagedThe directed by Jeff Tudor produced the Prix de Lausanne in the same year. Sleeping Beauty for the Royal Danish Ballet. by Dutch National Ballet, NTR In 1993 he moved to New York to join Since 2012 he is Artistic Associate of the & Opus Arte running time: 118’ the NYCB where he was named soloist Royal Ballet in London. In the same year Shot in HD with 5.1 Surround in 1998. While in New York he began he worked jointly with the San Francisco Sound choreographing for the NYCB in 1997, Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet on and in 2000 he retired from dancing in a new version of Prokofiev’s Cinderella, order to concentrate on his choreography. which was recently recorded by NTR and CiNDERELLA He became the NYCB’s first resident Opus Arte. Poorhouse International is Dutch National Ballet choreographer in 2001. By this time he very happy to be entrusted yet again with had already more than twenty ballets the distribution for television. Christopher Choreography to his credit and received commissions Wheeldon looked at the child characters Christopher Wheeldon from the San Francisco Ballet, The Royal of the sisters and Cinderella in order Music Sergei Prokofiev Ballet, London, and the Bolshoi. In 2004 to create real people, and in his own Performd by Holland Symfonia Christopher Wheeldon premièred a words, “less cartoon characters”. By using Conducted by Ermanno Florio full length ballet Alice´s Adventures in puppetry, video projections and new Wonderland at the Royal Ballet, Covent media elements he promises to take Sets, Costumes & Masks Garden. In 2007 he choreographed viewers on an interesting, exciting, magical Julian Crouch cast Cinderella Anna Tsygankova Wheeldon’s choreography is Prince Guillaume bright and lyrical, elegant and Matthew Golding Stepmother Hortensia humorous, and it knows how Larissa Lezhnina Stepsister Edwina to ride big melodies and enjoy Megan Zimny Gray Stepsister Clementine small jokes... Anna Tsyganko- Nadia Yanowsky va, a revelation in the title Benjamin Remi Wörtmeyer Dancers of Dutch National Ballet The Times role. 118' Photos © Opus Arte Photos © Opus PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30 7 imz & rm creativeOutside in, Enter Achilles (DV8), Cendrillon (Maguy Marin), Blush (Vandekeybus), Car-men (Jirí Kylián), Smoke (Mats Ek) YS Hotell (Kvarnström. )We will also try to get a clip of a Merce Cunningham work made for the camera. Not only have the looks of dancers changed, the dominance of the ballerinas has given way to male stars such as Nureyev and Baryshnikov both of which will be featured. Encouraged by a more profound knowledge of the roots of dance the classics are being reworked and we will show some examples like Mats Ek’s Cinderella and Matthew Bourne’s Swanlake. At the same time dance is pushing the borders further out in complex technique as well as content. Here we shall have examples of the work of Pina Bausch, William Forsythe and others. In fact the frontiers get so blurred in our event driven world that we cannot say whether Alain Platel with Les Ballets C de la B is dance or theatre. And cinemas around the globe play old war horses like the Nutcracker live from wherever. DANCE ON SCREEN Interview partners will be called up at appropriate moments and shall comment After the success of Music in the Air the Serpentine Dance in the late 1890s and Peter on the development of dance on film and IMZ has now commissioned a similar project Elfelt Bournonville’s La Sylphide in 1902. television, amongst them Wayne McGregor, on dance to coincide with the 25th Dance We shall then take a look at dance in Matthew Bourne, The Ballet Boyz, Margaret Screen in San Francisco this September. countries with a long ballet tradition: Russia, Williams, Clement Crisp, John Neumeier, Dance is a very ephemeral art form, France and Denmark. There is plenty of Vincent Bataillon, Thomas Grimm, Brigitte or at least it used to be, and attempts at material available through Cinématèque Lefèvre, Mats Ek, Mons Reuterswärd, notation over hundreds of years have only de la Danse in Paris, Statens Filmcentralen Kenneth Kvarnström and Bob Lockyer, who been partially successful. All of this changed in Denmark and from the Mariinsky and with the advent of film and later television. Bolshoi. The birth of modern dance is with his knowledge can fill in the gaps. Not only can we now preserve complex well documented in Germany with Mary patterns, virtuosic steps, athletic dancing and Wigman and the US with Martha Graham. great choreography but also get an idea of We shall also meet Lifar, Massine, Balanchine the people the dances were made for. And and Robbins to name but a few. there we are in for surprises because early Next we shall look at the influence ballerinas do not at all correspond with our Hollywood had on the dance scene. We ideas of slim, long - legged, beautiful and have an interview with Hermes Pan, the ethereal creatures. favourite choreographer of Fred Astaire, Dance on Screen will open with a who will perform his famous Hat Rack sequence showing a live relay of Gustav number. The link between Hollywood and Mahler’s Third Symphony choreographed Europe will be Roland Petit, who, together by John Neumeier from Palais Garnier to with Maurice Béjart, created the new cinemas all over France making dance dance wave in France after WW2 but also accessible to many more people than choreographed successfully in Hollywood in ever before. Neumeier will talk about the fifties. We have clips of both. his relationship with television. This will A great influence on the perception of be followed by a clip of the Mariinksy’s dance was undoubtedly the filmThe Red reconstruction of Nijinsky’s ground breaking Shoes. Money permitting there will be a clip. Sacre du printemps, a choreography With the advent of television and its unfortunately lost as there was no filming development the recording of dance during the stormy première in 1913 became easier. We shall share the Cullberg although the medium did already exist. We experiments with a clip from Red Wine in shall then move back to look at the first Green Glasses which led to dance specially directed by Reiner E. Moritz moving images of dance around the turn of created for the camera. Here we have produced by RM Creative the century when the first camera had just already assembled many interesting clips been invented: Lumière filmed Loie Fuller’s including: running time: 56’ Shot in HD PoorhouseApril - September 2013 international 8 lgm CONCERTS FOR TELEViSiON nostalgic Variations on a Rococo Theme AN EVENiNG WiTH for violoncello and orchestra with Alisa MAURiCE RAVEL Weinstein as soloist. The concert ends Mikko Franck is one of the child with Mussorgsky’s Pictures of an Exhibition, prodigies. He studied with the Finnish orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, this being Maestro Maker Jorma Panula and at the a nice gesture to the Paris audience. Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and became General Music Director and Artistic directed by Sébastien Glas produced by LGM running

Photo © LGM time: 85’ Shot in HD with 5.1 of contemporary music at Darmstadt Surround Sound and baroque repertoire with Paul Sacher. He had conducting lessons with Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel and Leonard Bernstein and received the coveted Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in 1953. He is considered a true Kapellmeister in the best sense of the word and specializes in the Vienna Classics and Scandinavian Music. After appointments with most of

Photo © Julien Mignot Photo © Julien the Scandinavian Radio Orchestras he Director of the Finnish National Opera headed the San Francisco Symphony at an age when others are happy to be Orchestra and served as Chief Conductor appointed assistant conductor to some of the Dresdner Staatskapelle from 1975 international star. Mikko Franck is currently to 1985. He is today a highly appreciated Music Director and Chief Conductor of guest conductor with many of the top the Orchestre National de Belgique. He orchestras worldwide. His Beethoven

is considered to be one of the foremost evening opens with Leonore II followed Photo © LGM interpreters of Finnish Music but also by the first piano concerto (Soloist excels in the classical repertoire. The Lars Vogt) and ends with a riveting MUSiC FOR program for this first encounter with performance of the Eroica. DiAGHiLEV the Orchestre de Paris is purely Ravel. In May 1913 Stravinsky’s Sacre du The concert opens with two pieces from directed by Isabelle Soulard printemps had its tumultuous world the piano cycle Miroirs orchestrated by produced by LGM running time: première at the Théâtre des Champs- the composer: Une barque sur l´océan 110’ Shot in HD with 5.1 Elysées in Paris. To commemorate this and Alborada. Shéhérazade follows with Surround Sound event Paavo Järvi created a program with Nora Gubich as soloist. The Evening with music from three famous ballets with the Maurice Ravel ends with a performance of Sacre as the centerpiece. The concert Daphnis and Chloe in the version without YURY TEMIRKANOV opens with Debussy’s L´après-midi d´un chorus. A RUSSiAN iN PARiS faune, a music based on a Mallarmé poem A student from the conducting class and made famous through Nijinsky’s directed by Sébastien Glas choreography. The program also includes produced by LGM running of world famous teacher Ilya Musin, Yuri Temirkanov became assistant to Evgeny a wonderful reading of Stravinsky’s time: 98’ Shot in HD with 5.1 Mravinsky and eventually took over his Firebird Suite from 1919. All three pieces Surround Sound position of Chief Conductor of what is were presented by Les Ballets Russes in now the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. their legendary Paris seasons and have BLOMSTEDT After a long tenure at the then Kirov brilliantly survived also in the concert halls. CONDUCTS Opera, where Valery Gergiev began as his assistant, he is now concentrating directed by Sébastien Glas & BEETHOVEN mostly on his vast concert repertoire. Corentin Leconte produced by Born in the US he moved back to Understandably he brings Russian Sweden with his parents at the age of LGM running time: 75’ Shot in music to the Orchestre de Paris. His HD with 5.1 Surround Sound two. Herbert Blomstedt studied at the concert opens with Prokofiev’s Suite Stockholm Royal College of Music and from Lieutenant Kijé which is followed Uppsala University, followed by studies by Tchaikovsky’s lighthearted and PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30 clc 9 VENUS AND ADONIS by JOHN BLOW Photos © Phillippe Delval

Although Blow called it a masque it is directed for television by and her young daughter. As it is a rather a true opera, and for that matter the first short work, Louise Moaty and Alain English opera at all. John Blow (1649- François-René Martin produced Buet paired it at Caen with Blow’s ode 1708) became the father of the School by CLC running time: 85’ Shot in for St. Cecilia’s Day in 1684 Begin the of English musicians of which Henry HD with 5.1 Surround Sound Song. Blow’s Monument in Westminster Purcell was the most brilliant and best Abbey tells us about the composer: “his known. He began as a chorister in the own Musical Composition (Especially his Chapel Royal under Henry Cooke and VENUS & ADONiS Church Musick) are far nobler Monument A Masque for the entertainment of the started to compose early on. In 1668 he to his memory than any other can be King preceded by the ode for succeeded Albert Bryne as organist of St. Cecilia’s Day in 1684 “Begin the Song” raised for Him”. Westminster Abbey and in 1674 he was John Blow (1649-1708) Actress and stage director Louise Moaty sworn a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. has been closely working with Benjamin In the same year he succeeded Humfrey Chorus & Orchestra of Les Lazar on Il Sant´Alessio at the Theatre as Master of the Children of the Chapel Musiciens du Paradis in Caen and recently produced a very Royal, a position he held until the end of successful Rinaldo for the National Theatre Chorus of La Maîtrise his life, counting Henry Purcell amongst de Caen in Prague. Her conductor, Bertrand Cuiller, his pupils. His memorial in Westminster is a student of Christophe Rousset and Abbey records that he was “Master to the Musical Director & Cembalo has worked many years with Les Arts famous Mr. H. Purcell”. From 1682 Blow Bertrand Cuiller Florissants. His recordings for cembalo and Purcell were associated as two of Stage Director Louise Moaty have attracted various prizes including a the three organists of the Chapel Royal. Diapason d´or. Choreography In 1687 Blow was appointed Master of Françoise Denieau the Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral and on the death of Purcell in 1695 returned Sets Adeline Caron to Westminster Abbey as organist. His Costumes Alain Blanchot compositions comprise anthems, court cast odes and one dramatic work Venus and Adonis. This was probably composed in Venus Céline Scheen 1683 and substantially influenced Purcell Adonis Marc Mauillon in his Dido and Aeneas. Based on Ovid’s Cupid A child from Metamorphoses Book X and Shakespeare’s La Maîtrise de Caen poem this work was successfully performed by one of the King’s mistresses 85' (Venus & Adonis 60’ Ode 25’) PoorhouseApril - September 2013 international 10 clc Photo © Mirco Magliocca Photo © Mirco VERDiSSiMO by DANiELE GATTi

In Daniele Gatti’s medley of overtures sat something into motion within the found their place. This is curiously mainly and choruses from Verdi operas composer. Verdi immediately identified his due to the Verdi renaissance which began the conductor gets to the essence sorrow with that of the Jews in captivity. in Germany in the 1920s and 30s with of Giuseppe Verdi’s art in bringing On looking at Va, pensiero… he said: publications by Franz Werfel, H. Gerigk out his fabulous gift for melody that “I was much moved, because the verses and P. Bekker. communicates a character’s emotions were almost a paraphrase from the Bible, Daniele Gatti has been Music Director and stir emotions in the listener. Just the reading of which had always delighted of the Teatro Communale di Bologna think of Va, pensiero, sull´alia dorate me.” Verdi did compose again and, after and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, from Nabucco. When Verdi, completely the triumph of Nabucco went from made his debut in 2008 in Bayreuth with depressed by the loss of his two children success to success, even when many of Herrheim’s Parsifal and succeeded Kurt and his wife, refused to compose further his operas flopped at their often hastily Masur as Music Director of the Orchestre work, the then director of La Scala prepared premières. As a true child of the National de France in 2008 and Franz quietly introduced him to Temistocle Risorgimento Verdi knew that the appeal Welser-Möst as Chief Conductor of Solera’s libretto for Nabucco and thereby for patriotic emotions helped to ensure the Zürich Opera House in 2009. He popular success for his works and even comes from a Verdi tradition. Not only today new topical allusions are still to be did he study at the “Giuseppe Verdi” found. Yet beyond specific relevance there Conservatory in Milan but Carlo Gatti was and is the power of Verdi’s melodies did ground breaking research on the and slow-surging rhythms to generate composer in the 30s and 40s. Daniele mass emotion. We can hardly understand, Gatti will also open the next Scala season that critics in the late 19th and early with a new La Traviata in December 2013. 20th centuries denied him the attribute This concert with the Orchestre of modernity which was exclusively National de France and the Chœur de reserved for Richard Wagner, born the Radio France was recorded at the Palais same year as Verdi and also celebrated des Congrès in Paris. The repertoire in 2013. Whether one believes it or not, comprises of Overtures and Choruses the real breakthrough of Giuseppe Verdi from Luisa Miller, I Lombardi, Macbeth, Don only happened when Rudolf Bing, as Carlo, Nabucco, Les Vêpres siciliennes, Otello administrator of the New York Met, made and Aida. Verdi the cornerstone of his repertoire, in as much as Peter Gelb seems to directed by Gérard Pullicino do this with Donizetti today. From the produced by CLC running time: 1970s on Verdi began to dominate the 95’ Shot in HD with 5.1 international repertoire more openly and Surround Sound

Photo © Mirco Magliocca Photo © Mirco late masterpieces like Otello and Falstaff PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30 lgm 11

TRiSHA BROWN at LYON Photos © Cavalca

The choreographer Trisha Brown has follows: “Newark is Ms. Brown’s most a special relationship with the Lyon opera successful integration of music, décor and Lyon Opera Ballet: ballet which has four of her works in dancing, and it succeeds precisely because its repertoire and pays homage to this its overall result is an abstract theatrical FOR MG: THE MOViE leading American choreographer. production. An additional reason, Newark Choreography, Sets & Costumes Trisha Brown was a founding member has a new resonant power, and is quite Trisha Brown of the Avantgarde Judson Dance simply the high level of choreographic Music & Piano Alvin Curran Theatre in 1962 where she worked with invention”. Dancers experimental dancers such as Steve The second piece in this programme Marie Laëtitia Diederichs, Paxton, Twyla Tharp and Lucinda Childs. is For M.G.: The Movie. Neutral and Simon Feltz, Amandine François, She also joined a composition class anonymous, it has a figure standing with Harris Gkekas, led by Robert Dunn from the Merce his back to the audience throughout the Tadayoshi Kokeguchi, Cunningham dance studio. In 1970 she piece. “If he faced the audience,” says Karline Marion, formed the Trisha Brown Dance Company the choreographer, “you would have an Elsa Monguillot de Mirman, which soon became one of the leading expectation that he might do something. Pavel Trush, Agalie Vandamme contemporary dance groups. But he is not Michel Guy who the initials 30’ From the late 1960s on she began to of the title stand for”. She continues create her own work which attempted “Michel (former French minister of culture) to defy gravity, make dancers walk on commissioned the dance … he died NEWARK walls and experiment with the dynamics before I made the dance, but he and those Choreography Trisha Brown of stability. Unlike Merce Cunningham encounters remained in mind, guiding my Sound concept & sets and John Cage however who left it to effort to transmit an enigmatic behaviour Donald Judd the viewer to put elements together, onto the stage. The movie part of it has to Dancers Trisha Brown and her collaborators do with making a figure materialize in the Amandine François, worked towards a shared vision. In 1985 space the way you can when you edit a film. Aurélie Gaillard, Julian Nicosia, she began her Valiant Cycle. It used a You can go from fork to face with a blink of Ruth Miro Salvador, larger pad, bolder movement phrases to an eye”. articulate her evolving special aesthetics. Denis Terrasse, Ashley Wright The masterpiece of this period is Newark directed by Marie-Hélène 28’ (1987) with décor and a sound concept Rebois produced by LGM by Donald Judd. Anna Kisselgoff reviewed running time: the premiere in the New York Times as 60’ Shot in HD PoorhouseApril - September 2013 international 12 backstage

Rienzi from Théâtre du Capitole 180’ renew the experience, and two years later Mip OUT ON DVD Cinderella from Dutch National Ballet had moved to Cannes where it first took place The successful long running PBS series Art:21 will in 1965 in the old Palais de Festival, famous now be released Europe wide by Arthaus. The first 118’ for housing the Cannes Film Festival. Now it episode Change hits the shelves in late spring and will be followed by 23 more monthly episodes is well known that no industry is so bad at featuring over 90 contemporary artists. 50 YEARS OF MiP communicating as the communications industry. Poorhouse is proud to distribute two further We are celebreating 50 years of Mip at You try to find somebody in today’s crowds at productions from Dutch National Opera recently the current market. Reiner Moritz, MD of Mip, Mipcom or Midem! In those days this was released on DVD by Opus Arte: Handel’s Deidamia Poorhouse International remembers: relatively easy. When you entered the Palais you and Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en “TV has become a very volatile industry. gave your name and a little light next to your Tauride and also the Opus Arte titles Britten’s Peter People come and go more quickly than ever. photograph on the huge walls of the lobby was lit. Grimes from La Scala and Janacek’s The Cunning Little Musical chairs are the practice and ratings reign Vixen from Glyndebourne. And there were parties … I can even remember supreme. People come and go, most have gone. a Twist competition. When I look back 50 years to the very When Mip outgrew the old Palais the new PRESS first Mip 1963 in Lyon I do feel a little bit of one was built at the edge of the old harbour and More acclaim for the bestselling Bohème from nostalgia. Those were the good old days. Ian everything became bigger and better. Oslo: Warren of Global TV and I met up in Paris the I can say that my 50 years at Mip have been “Herheim’s La Boheme hurts and that is why it night before the opening for a very good dinner great fun and I wouldn’t have wanted to miss succeeds so well… at Lasserre’s. We than proceeded by train to one. If only those who were there when it all The major idea in Stefan Herheim’s La Bohéme Lyon, passing through Burgundy and enjoying started were still around. It seems that I am one is replacing tuberculosis in Mimis lungs with the vineyards of the great Crus which whizzed of the two or three survivors, still in the business cancer. The disease not only become relevant, past. At the Lyon station we were met by or sort of, who has not missed a single Mip since but also provides a greater space than usual Jacques Terrand, the Head of Sales of ORTF with those early days in Lyon.” in Boheme. Mimi dies even before the first Champaign and Oysters. After all we were two of note from the pit. It changes those traditionally his most important clients. superficial dramatic situations into meaningful Then Mip began for about 200 delegates POORHOUSE memories and ambiguous thoughts. The visual who sometimes felt a bit lost in the vast hall effects are tremendously strong and the whole of Lyon Trade Fair, were it not for the radiant iNTERNATiONAL AT production is exceptionally deep and unified. blue eyes of Berit Rinnan, the deputy Head of MiPDOC AND MiP Also musically this is one of the best production Purchase for NRK. TV 2013: ever from The Norwegian Opera. Marita Sølberg’s As there was no direct dial telephone in those During MIP TV Dr. Reiner Moritz (Mimi) soprano sparkles like a slender silver days and the mobile had not yet been invented will be at the Media Stand H4.35, thread from her sickbed and Diego Torre is a rare I spent hours sitting under a stair case opposite steadfast Rodolfo... 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The Art of being Arrabel 60’ At the very end of this first Mip there was a pretty drunk farewell party during which the Edouard Manet - A Disquieting Mayor of Lyon said to me: “You can see for 17-18 Margaret Street Strangeness 52’ yourself what a disappointing attendance we had. John Ford and Monument Valley 55’ London W1W 8RP I don’t think this new business called Television telephone/fax: +44 (0)20 7436 8663 Venus & Adonis by John Blow 85’ has a great future.” He obviously did not want to email [email protected] PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No30