Dancing with Time
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Dancing with Time is a film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 by Trevor Peters
Trevor Peters
Trevor Charles Peters is an international footballer for the British Virgin Islands, who currently plays as a striker for Virgin Gorda Ballstars.-International career:...

 about the autobiography Dance Theater Zeit – tanzen seit 1927 by Heike Hennig
Heike Hennig
Heike Hennig is a German dancer, choreographer and director of the opera and dance ensemble “Heike Hennig & Co”.-Life:Heike Hennig had her first dance-lessons at the age of 5 years in Leipzig...

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Plot

Four dancers, nearing their eighties, take up the challenge of Heike Hennig to return to the stage in Leipzig’s opera house. Ursula Cain
Ursula Cain
Ursula Cain was a German dancer and dance teacher. -Biography:The dancer and the dance teacher Ursula Cain began her dance education at the age of 12 years in the preparatory class of the Mary Wigman Schule for modern dance...

, Christa Franze, Siegfried Prölß and Horst Dittmann have been leading members of the Ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

 of the Oper Leipzig
Oper Leipzig
Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany.The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third oldest opera venue in Europe after La Fenice and the Hamburg State Opera...

. A performance of emotional richness combined with the stories of their lives, from Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman was a German dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor.A pioneer of expressionist dance, her work was hailed for bringing the deepest of existential experiences to the stage...

, Gret Palucca
Gret Palucca
Gret Palucca was a German dancer and teacher.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909. There she received ballet lessons with Heinrich Kröller from 1914 to 1916...

 to Heike Hennig. Nothing about them is old, except their age.

Dancing with Time was produced as film for TV (f.ex.: ARTE
Arte
Arte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...

 and ZDF
ZDF
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

) and movie-theaters, as DVD and as book by Marion Appelt, with a preface of Renate Schmidt
Renate Schmidt
thumb|Renate SchmidtRenate Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician.-Early life:Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave school a year before she would have received her Abitur...

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Music

  • Jureks Zeit: (J. Lamorski)
  • Kalumbo: (C. Meyer/R. Moser)
  • Something in the Park: (C. Meyer/R. Moser)
  • Give me that old Time Religion: (trad.arr. Moses Hogan) Darek Lee Ragin & The New World Ensemble-Chamber Choir
  • Brandenburgische Konzerte: G-dur, Allegro (J. S. Bach)
  • Symphony No. 5: C-Sharp minor, Adagietto (G. Mahler) Berliner Philharmoniker - Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado
    Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...

  • Dancing with Memories: (C. Meyer)
  • Ich sitze gerade Zuhause und werde mir eine Zigarette drehen: Ammer & Console)
  • Django Theme: (M. Dietrich/J. Simon/VM De Luxe/O. F. Berdomo) DJ Opossum

Development

Dancing with Time is produced from ma.ja.de filmproduktion in co-produktion with ZDF
ZDF
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

 in collaboration with ARTE
Arte
Arte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...


, (subtitled) North American Premiere on VIFF in Vancouver 2008

External links

  • Dancing with Time at the Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
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  • Heike Hennig & Co Homepage de-en-fr
  • OPER Leipzig unplugged - FZTM Homepage
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