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The Great Mass
A Ballet by Uwe Scholz
Leipzig Ballet, with Kiyoko Kimura
Music by Mozart
Performed by the orchestra of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and chorus of the Leipzig Opera
A masterpiece of large ensemble choreography! The twenty-four dancers, dressed entirely in white, perform this magnificent realization of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, one of the most glorious pieces of choral music ever written. The rows of dancers open and close, allowing rivers of movement to erupt in every direction. They fit together in block-like forms and flow through each other diagonally. Tension finds release in wide leaps and eloquent arm movements. Kiyoko Kimura's solos are breathtakingly beautiful.
Filmed live in 2005 as a memorial to the choreographer Uwe Scholz, the program opens with the dancers being individually introduced to a solemn Gregorian chant, followed by the opening Kyrie of the Mass. After the Gloria, the Mass is interrupted three times by several contemporary contrasting pieces of Scholz's choreography and his interpretation of Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor and his Ave Verum Corpus (The viewer needs to skip over these interruptions to see the Mass in its entirety).
DVD 130 min., 2005
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The Great Mass