Rain (Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes, 2012)
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Documentary on the transmission of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s contemporary Rosas choreography to the classically-trained ballet dancers of the world-renowned Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.

Rain (Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes, 2012)
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, English, French
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
83'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78

On 25th May 2011 the world-renowned Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris presented Rain, its first ever performance of a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The filmmakers Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes followed the rehearsal process from the auditions to the opening performance. The documentary focuses on how De Keersmaeker and the Rosas dancers convey the dance idiom of the choreographer to the classically trained ballet dancers. The rigidity of ballet gives way to another kind of severity, namely the mathematical pattern of Rain, which, however, conceals a powerful emotional layering. A poetic documentary about searching, looking and hesitating within the walls of the opera, which at times can be claustrophobic.

“Solicited by the Paris Opera, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker agrees to put on a new production of Rain (2001) involving contemporary dance movements that at first seem alien to the illustrious French ballet company. The filmmakers were already familiar with the work of this choreographer, who had previously commissioned recordings from them, and they share her sense of rigour and sensuality. In this case, a mix of documentary sobriety and brief incursions into the realm of fiction, as when the camera lingers on the graceful beauty of one of the ballerinas, in defiance of the narrative thread and the Opera company’s rules (filming is all right, but not just one person). The editing thus switches between different types of images: the video of the first production of Rain that the troupe sometimes consults, shots from the Opera’s surveillance cameras, telephone conversations with the choreographer… The film acts as a curtain, like the minimal and undulating fringe of Rain’s Paris stage set. Through the things that are hidden from view, this fragmentary form suggests that beyond the technical learning process there is a more mysterious appropriation. A transmission only visible perhaps in the living present of the performance.”

Charlotte Garson

Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch, English, French
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
83'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
With
Met
Avec
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Leonore Baulac, Jakub Truszkowski
Image
Beeld
Image
Olivia Rochette
Sound
Geluid
Son
Gerard-Jan Claes
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Bart Van Langendonck
Editing
Montage
Montage
Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes, Dieter Diependaele
Music
Muziek
Musique
‘Music for 18 Musicians' by Steve Reich performed by Ictus & Synergy Vocals
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes
Sound Mix
Klankmix
Mixage son
Thierry De Vries
Colour Correction
Kleurcorrectie
Etalonnage
Reinder Vankeerbergen
Production
Productie
Production
Savage Film
Co-production
Coproductie
Coproduction
Sciapode, Opéra national de Paris
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), CNC, the Media Development Program of the E.U., the Belgian tax shelter for film financing (investor : B-architecten)
In association with
In samenwerking met
En association avec
Eyeworks