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The Heart Dances - The Journey of The Piano: the Ballet
The Heart Dances - The Journey of The Piano: the Ballet
Film (Trailer) – 2018 Documentary
The Edge - Holly Hunter interview
Interview with Piano star Holly Hunter
The Piano
Jane Campion's original Oscar winning film
Crossing Rachmaninoff
Another documentary from director Rebecca Tansley
Kaleidoscope - China Ballet: A Week in Beijing, A Bit Less in Shanghai
Royal NZ Ballet travel to China in the 1980s
The Edge - Jane Campion interview
Director Jane Campion discusses The Piano
An Angel at My Table
Piano maker Jane Campion also made this
Tutus & Town Halls
Royal NZ ballet tour provincial NZ in 2001
Ballet in New Zealand
Documentary tracing early years of RNZ Ballet
Giselle
Documentary inspired by the Royal NZ Ballet
In 2015 celebrated Czech choreographer Jiří Bubeníček and his twin brother and designer Otto adapted award-winning film The Piano into a full-length ballet. With her second big screen documentary, Crossing Rachmaninoff director Rebecca Tansley followed the pair as they arrive in New Zealand, and begin expanding their original production for a 2018 season with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Bubeníček faces difficult artistic decisions as he and Māori Advisor Moss Te Ururangi Patterson try to find common ground while deepening the ballet's Māori elements and themes.
A seductive behind the scenes look at the dance world.– Reviewer Camille Khouri in Urbis, 26 June 2018
Produced by
Phaedra Film Ltd
Source
Phaedra Film Ltd
Availability
Released in New Zealand cinemas on 4 April 2019
World premiere on 28 July 2018 in Wellington's Embassy Theatre, as part of the 2018 NZ International Film Festival
More information
Acknowledgements
Made in association with the NZ Film Commission
Music
Additional music composed and performed by Flavio Villani
'Aotearoa' composed and performed by Minuit
'Gravity' composed and performed by Bic Runga
'Horizon' composed and performed by Aldous Harding
Soundtrack also includes music by Michael Nyman, Frédéric Chopin, Dimitri Shostakovich, Bedrich Smetana and Alfred Schnittke