Saturday, July 25, 2009
Ballet: Farukh Ruzimatov In Tokyo
I had the great pleasure to see Farukh Ruzimatov and the Leningrad State Ballet perform in Tokyo yesterday. Great program with all the classics you'd expect, including Nut Cracker and SwanLake by Tchaikovsky. The video clip here is from Schererazade, the ancient Persian story...
Ruzimatov was born in in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is very popular in Japan, and last night, the ovations just did not want to end. There were so many flowers...
Farukh Ruzimatov also performed a very special Asura dance to the ancient sounds of Japanese music:
阿修羅
振付:岩田 守弘 音楽:藤舎名生
ファルフ・ルジマトフ
これは良かったです!前にも一度観たことがあったけど、2回目に観ると、より面白く観ることができました。私は外国人の振付家が日本をイメージして創った何ちゃって勘違い和モノダンスが大嫌いなのですが(それはたとえノイマイヤーであっても嫌)、岩田さんの作品は、踊りの中に魂を感じることができて、しかもルジマトフの禁欲的な雰囲気にもマッチしていて、観ているうちにじーんとしてきます。和太鼓と掛け声の音楽も、違和感なく振付に生かされていました。ルジマトフは前より少し体格が立派になった感じです。が、この人の一つ一つのポーズは本当に美しくて、一つ一つが絶妙な角度で止まって、惚れ惚れします。彼はいつもアラインメントが綺麗なのよね~。
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1 comment:
Wonderful. I love that music. Played it many times in orchestras but never had the privilege of seeing the ballet.
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