Dancing Beethoven

Dancing Beethoven is a 2017 documentary film by the Spanish director Arantxa Aguirre.[1] It is about the work of the choreographer Maurice Béjart, founder of the Ballet of the 20th Century and other dance companies.[2] It was released on April 28, 2017.[3] Shooting took place in Lausanne and Tokyo over nine months.[3]

Dancing Beethoven
Richard Perron, Arantxa Aguirre and José Luis López Linares at the 32nd Goya Awards
Directed byArantxa Aguirre
Screenplay byArantxa Aguirre
StarringZubin Mehta
Music byLudwig van Beethoven
CinematographyRafael Reparaz
Edited byValeria Gentile
Production
companies
  • Coproducción España-Suiza
  • Fondation Béjart Ballet Lausanne
  • Fondation Maurice Béjart
  • López-Li Films
Distributed byMárgenes Distribución Arsenal Filmverleih
Release date
  • April 28, 2017 (2017-04-28) (Spain)
Running time
80 min

It tells the story of a revival of choreography created by Bejart in the 1960s for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The performance is given in Tokyo and the dancers are from the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and Tokyo Ballet, accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta.[4]

Cast
  • Malya Roman
  • Julien Favreau
  • Elisabet Ros
  • Kateryna Shalkina
  • Óscar Chacón
  • Gil Roman as a member of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne
  • Kathleen Thielhem
  • Masayoshi Onuki
  • Alanna Archibald as a cello player
  • Simon Hoffman as a cello player
  • Zubin Mehta as the director

Awards and nominations

Dancing Beethoven was nominated in the 32nd Goya Awards for Best Documentary Film and for the XXIII Premio Cinematográfico José María Forqué[5] although finally Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo won.[6][7]

References
  1. "Dancing Beethoven". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  2. Cervera, Marta (April 29, 2017). "Arantxa Aguirre: 'Bejart no es solo para balletómanos'". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. "'DANCING BEETHOVEN' SE ESTRENA EN CINES". Danza.es (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música. April 25, 2017. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  4. "Dancing Beethoven". Antena 3 Noticias (in Spanish). Madrid. April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  5. Redacción (December 27, 2017). "Dancing Beethoven, nominada a los Premios Goya y Forqué". Mundo Clásico (in Spanish). Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. "'Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo', Goya al mejor documental". Radio Televisión Española (in Spanish). February 4, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  7. "'Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo', de Gustavo Salmerón, Mejor película documental en los Premios Goya 2018". Europa Press (in Spanish). Madrid. February 4, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
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