John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet opened their tour program with the famous dance production of the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. The highlights of this amazingly beautiful production have been captured in photographs taken by one of RIA Novosti’s leading photographers Vladimir Vyatkin.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankJohn Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet opened their tour program with the famous dance production of the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. The highlights of this amazingly beautiful production have been captured in photographs taken by one of RIA Novosti’s leading photographers Vladimir Vyatkin.
John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet opened their tour program with the famous dance production of the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. The highlights of this amazingly beautiful production have been captured in photographs taken by one of RIA Novosti’s leading photographers Vladimir Vyatkin.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankThe Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, composed by Neumeier in 1975, was the choreographer’s attempt to express music through the medium of dance.
The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, composed by Neumeier in 1975, was the choreographer’s attempt to express music through the medium of dance.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankMahler’s composition presents a unique challenge both to the director and the dancers. Photo: ballet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet, Alexandre Riabko, Hélène Bouchet and Otto Bubenícek (left to right) in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Mahler’s composition presents a unique challenge both to the director and the dancers. Photo: ballet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet, Alexandre Riabko, Hélène Bouchet and Otto Bubenícek (left to right) in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankAs the Third Symphony gradually unfolds, the rhythm and mood changes and the musical drama, the meaning of which according to the composer himself, from moving over from love for nature to love for God, opens up limitless possibilities to the choreographer, both in terms of separate movements and in terms of creating conclusive mise en scenes.
As the Third Symphony gradually unfolds, the rhythm and mood changes and the musical drama, the meaning of which according to the composer himself, from moving over from love for nature to love for God, opens up limitless possibilities to the choreographer, both in terms of separate movements and in terms of creating conclusive mise en scenes.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankBallet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet Silvia Azzoni and Alexandre Riabko in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Ballet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet Silvia Azzoni and Alexandre Riabko in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankBallet dancer with the Hamburg Ballet Edvin Revazov in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Ballet dancer with the Hamburg Ballet Edvin Revazov in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankBallet dancer with the Hamburg Ballet Hélène Bouchet in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Ballet dancer with the Hamburg Ballet Hélène Bouchet in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankA scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
A scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankA scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler in John Neumeier’s production on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater.
A scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler in John Neumeier’s production on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankBallet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet Alexandre Riabko, Hélène Bouchet and Otto Bubenícek in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
Ballet dancers with the Hamburg Ballet Alexandre Riabko, Hélène Bouchet and Otto Bubenícek in a scene from the ballet Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabank“This ballet is my first attempt at a systematic approach to symphony, an attempt to tell it using the language of dance. I am not inventing an everyday story, I’m not trying to visualize the musical score, that would be too obvious especially for Mahler. But my ballet is not an abstraction, I’m still telling the story of human relations in this music,” says Neumeier (photo).
“This ballet is my first attempt at a systematic approach to symphony, an attempt to tell it using the language of dance. I am not inventing an everyday story, I’m not trying to visualize the musical score, that would be too obvious especially for Mahler. But my ballet is not an abstraction, I’m still telling the story of human relations in this music,” says Neumeier (photo).