GHOSTS Ballet by Henrik Ibsen
Classic Dance
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1h 14m
The Norwegian National Ballet offers a choreographic adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Ghosts.
A convoluted family story, haunted by the image of a missing father. An intimate drama, woven around a mother and her son, which exposes a maze of emotions, populated by specters and ghosts.
Because the vocabulary of dance is mostly limited to body movements and facial expressions, it’s daunting to make a ballet from works of literature based on abstract creative elements like writing style, written dialogue, time shifting, changes of voice, and political or philosophical ideas. But it can be done, as we have seen with Woolf Works and Hedda Gabler (another Ibsen ballet from the Norwegian National Ballet). Ibsen’s Ghosts presented even greater difficulties than usual because there are only 5 characters (all adults) in the play and almost everything they say has to do with things that happened in the past.
Director: Cina Espejord (Choreography), Nils Petter Molvær (Music Director)
Cast: Marit Moum Aune (Staging), Norwegian National Ballet (Dancers), Andreas Heise (Osvald / Mr Alving), Camilla Spidsøe (Mrs. Alving), Grete Sofie Borud Nybakken (Regine), Yoshifumi Inao (Engstrand), Ole Willy Falkhaugen (Pastor Manders)
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