Quickie Link [1]: Death of a Choreographer [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Mar 10, 2007 - 03:15 PM
Culture [3]
John Neumeier's "free adaptation" of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice for the marvelous dancers of the Hamburg Ballet walks a fine line between astute theatricality and melodrama, between brilliant passages of movement and banal gestures. The primary message is that the life of an artist - even a famous, successful one - can be hell unless he's in creative touch with his inner child; i.e., his emotions. Because Neumeier has transformed Mann's tragic hero from a writer into a choreographer, Gustav von Aschenbach's infatuation with the beautiful young Tadzio seems more about envying the spontaneity he doesn't find in the ballet studio than about craving gorgeous male flesh; there's plenty of that around.

Note: Read full article on www.villagevoice.com [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=709&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=8&lead=1
  [4] http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0707,jowitt,75792,14.html