The Neighbour - A ballet from the real life by Jo Strømgren & Stein-Roger Bull

Описание: Leif Ove Andsnes, neighbour
Line Tørmoen, Dimitri Jourde, couple/dancers
Jo Strømgren, choreography

0:16 Introduction interviews
7:00 Ballet

Two neighbours. A lonely pianist on one side of the wall. A couple with domestic problems on the other. They can hear each other.
This film – Rose d’Or award winner 2010 - is about man and woman, about single people, about the chance to start over again, about chances that are long gone. It is also a film about how music
affects us, and how we affect music.

In a big apartment in Frogner, Oslo, Norway, a couple argues and fights about being together. Boxes with separate belongings are already brought outside the flat. Their neighbour is a lonesome pianist, annoyed and bedeviled by the couple’s endless quarrels. He plays the piano, Leoš Janáček: “In the Mist”. The sound penetrates through the walls. Slowly the couple unconsciously succumbs to the influence of the music and ends up deciding to cease fighting and resolve their argument, and maybe unpack the boxes again.
The engagements of internationally renowned choreographer Jo Strømgren range from classical companies like Vienna State Opera ballet, Ballet de l’Opera National du Rhin and the Norwegian National Ballet to contemporary ensembles such as Cedar Lake Dance Company, Göteborg Opera Ballet, Stadttheater Bern Ballett and the Cloud Gate Ensemble.

The Idea
Music reflects the psychological dynamics of a human conflict like a mirror. Prosaic situation in realistic surroundings serves as a contrast to the abstract association expressed in music and dance. The beginning is dry and realistic but gradually it dissolves into a poetic realm where time and laws of nature disappear. At the end it returns into the reality frames; and it does end as dryly as it started. The difference is however that the couple has solved their problems.

Leif Ove Andsnes –
One of the most prominent pianists in the world.
Andsnes has won three Gramophone Awards and his recording of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 won him a 2006 Classical Brit Award

Line Tørmoen –
One of the Norway’s best dancers who has worked with Carte Blanche Dance Company, Zero Visibility Corp, Jo Strømgren Company and Kublai Khan Investigations. Now engaged by renowned Francois Verrét i Paris.

Dimitri Jourde –
A rising star on the French dance stage. Originally a hip-hop dancer from Paris, later a circus acrobat, and then with Kublai Khan Investigations and Zero Visibility Corp. Currently also with Francois Verrét.