Product Details

• Actors: Vanessa de Lignière, Gamal Gouda, Gunilla Hammar, George Elkin, Torunn Robstad
• Directors: Gunilla Wallin, Mats Ek
• Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Swedish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005M1ZR
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,719 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best dance dvd ever., August 14, 2003

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"mansardroof" (somerville, ma United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek) (DVD)

mats ek again takes a classical music score to a ballet and retells the narrative in a new unforgettable manner.it would be more than enough to just see these amazing dancers move, but added to it his take on romanticism, racism, humor and love,make for a total artistic triumph. further, he manages to have the clearest definition of deconstruction in a video ever. understand, please, that i have been a professional modern dancer for more than 38 years,and my sensibility is very critical, yet this video moved me in ways that i find profound and deep. buy this, look at it three times, and you will never see ballet in the same way again

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not "Parsifal" but "Spamelot", February 7, 2006

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M. F TERRIS (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek) (DVD)

This delightful ballet is superbly choreographed, ably danced, and beautifully shot. Above all, it is incredibly funny; this is the Monty Python of dance. Here we see the evil "fairy" as an obstretrician, menacingly spraying drugs from his hyperdermic into the air before being knocked down like a keystone cop. Later, a set manager bursts forth from his booth, scowls at the cameraman, a repeatedly shoots the same fairy character, while shouting "murderer" at the character he's killing. The dance is perfectly attuned to the music, simultaneously graceful and reminicent of a Python "funny walk."

It seems that none of the other reviewers quite get it! Hearing Tchaikovsky, they figure it must be romantic and serious. It's like concluding that because a music drama is about the knights of the roundtable, it must be Wagner. What then do you make of Spamelot? Thomas, the professional, calls it "gut-wrenchingly emotive;" "gut-bursting" would be more apt. Kirven writes "this entire project is completly over my head;" 'orang_books' can't understand why there's Tchiakovsky mixed with screaming. 'Mansardroof' calls it "profound and deep." Well, Terris says that the really great thing about having this as a DVD is that you don't have to feel embarrassed when you burst out into laughter in the middle of the ballet. Yes, it's insightful, as are major works of humor.

Eks' Sleeping Beauty is part superb and remarkably innovative dance, beautifully attuned in its own special way to Tchaikovsky's music, but it

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely original and amazing!, June 30, 2007

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Stanislaw Kmiec "LUBLINSTAS" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek) (DVD)

It really takes talent to make one forget the traditional "accepted" versions of this classic ballet. I am a dance purist and appreciate a sense a tradition along with innovation with the classics. This version "blew me away." One can read so much into this interpretation, which is less of a fairy tale and more of a serious drama and contemporary commmentary - an intellectually adult retelling of the story. I can be a ballet/dance snob, but one must appreciate the sheer talent involved in this absolutely original and amazing work! WOW!